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.

The column "Overlap with Other Working Groups" should be used to list subject areas that may duplicate some effort from another Working Group. When Working Group activities stray into these overlapping subject areas then collaboration between Working Groups is warranted for those tasks.

Working Group Overview

Group Name	Status	Members	Mission & Scope	Overlap with Other Working Groups	Links
Citizen Science	Active	Austin Mast (Lead) Tom Nash Blanka Shaw Jon Shaw Matt von Konrat Andrew Sallans Michael Denslow Nelson Rios Barbara Thiers Deborah 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) Andrea Matsunaga Reed Beaman John Deck	1) Establish the working group and its goals, with the guidance of participants from the MISC breakout group from iDigBio's It Standards workshop. 2) Document basic assumptions underpinning a minimal information for scientific collections expectation. 3) Develop a document outlining and providing a rationale for required, minimal, desired, and supplementary data elements to be provided by iDigBio contributors. 4) Develop guidelines for data validation, training and assistance to iDigBio contributors for configuring data for ingestion into the iDigBio portal
Geo referencing Working Group (GWG)	Active	John Wieczorek (Berkeley, MVZ) Nelson Rios (Tulane, GeoLocate) David Bloom (Berkeley, MVZ) Gil Nelson, iDigBio Digitization Deborah Paul, iDigBio User Services Reed Beaman Paul Heinrich, (SCAN TCN, Co-PI) Una Farrell, (Paleoniches TCN, Co-PI)	Our first goals are to start building a community of expert Georeferencing trainers in a workshop to be held in the fall or winter of 2012 and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools. Want to know more? Contact Deborah Paul
Augmenting OCR (aOCR)	Active	Bryan Heidorn, (Chair), Univ of AZ Deborah Paul (Co-Chair), iDigBio User Services Renato Figueiredo, iDigBio IT Gil Nelson, iDigBio Digitization Jason Best (BRIT Apiary) Ed Gilbert (Symbiota, LBCC TCN) Nathan 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. Want to know more? Contact Bryan Heidorn or Deborah Paul
Intellectual Property Policy	Inactive	Gil Nelson (Lead) Deborah 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	Final Published Document Note: This document is open for community comment