IDigBio Working Groups

Overview

iDigBio supports a number of Working Groups. Several working groups are focused on the delivery of short-term objectives, while other standing Working Groups are tasked with ongoing research, development, and improvement activities. This page provides an overview of both current (active) and disbanded (inactive) Working Groups.

Working Group Overview

Group Name	Status	Members	Mission & Scope	Overlap with Other Working Groups	Lists	Links
Citizen Science	Active	Austin Mast (Lead) Tom Nash Blanka Shaw Jon Shaw Matt von Konrat Andrew Sallans Michael Denslow Nelson Rios Barbara Thiers Debbie Paul Betty Dunckel Gil Nelson Bruce MacFadden	Identify and improve aspects of biodiversity digitization workflows that can be newly architected or enhanced to take advance of Citizen Science engagement.		Listserv	Working Group Wiki Citizen Science / Eductation & Outreach Workshop Citizen Science / Education & Outreach Workshop Target Participants
Authority Files	Active	Greg Riccardi (Lead) Katja Seltmann
Cyber Infrastructure	Active	Andrea Matsunaga (Lead)
Minimum Information Standards & Semantics	Active	Gil Nelson (Lead)
Geo- Referencing	Active	Debbie Paul (Lead)	Build a community of expert Georeferencing trainers and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) / Natural Language Processing (NLP)	Active	Bryan Heidorn, (Chair), Univ of AZ Debbie Paul (Co-Chair), iDigBio User Services Renato Figueiredo, iDigBio IT Gil Nelson, iDigBio Digitization Jason Best (BRIT Apiary) Ed Gilbert (Symbiota, LBCC TCN) Gnanasambandam (Xerox) Stephen Gottschalk, (NYBG TTD-TCN) Nahil Sobh, (InvertNet TCN)	Engage experts in the biodiversity and information technology fields to identify opportunities to broadly implement existing effective OCR tools and enhance existing Machine and Natural Language Processing technologies to meet the needs of the biodiversity community.
Intellectual Property Policy	Inactive	Gil Nelson (Lead) Debbie Paul David Giblin Katja Schultz Katja Seltmann Chris Dietrich Paul Stern John Fraser	Produce a clear Intellectual Property Policy to establish data ownership rights and data re-use requirements related to content presented via iDigBio by collections and institutions.	None identified	N/A	Final Published Document Note: This document is open for community comment