BioDigiCon 2022

iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually on 27-29 September 2022.

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Conference Registration

Registration is open! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697

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Conference Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday, 27 September 2022

iDigBio Orientation

Time EDT	Room 1
10:30 - 10:50	iDigBio: Intro & What's New
10:50 - 11:00	iDigBio Project Management
11:00 - 11:10	Promoting your collection: Social media, WeDigBio/transcription projects
11:10 - 12:00	Discussion session for new and existing TCNs: Reporting, Tracking, Keeping people engaged
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch

TCN Presentations

Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
1:00 - 1:15	NEW TCN 1
1:15 - 1:30	NEW TCN 2
1:35 - 1:45	TPT (Tucker/Zaspel)	Bringing Asian plant diversity to digital life
1:45 - 1:55	oVert (Blackburn)	Big-Bee (Seltmann)
1:55 - 2:05	LepNet/SCAN (Cobb)	GLOBAL (Budke)
2:15 - 2:25	ESB	TORCH (Barroso)
2:25 - 2:35	DigIn (Wetzer)	California Phenology (Yost)
2:35 - 2:45	Break	Break
2:45 - 2:55	PILSBRY (Yeung)	PCC (Rothfels)
3:05 - 3:15	Endless Forms (Pace)	SERNEC (Denslow)
3:15 - 3:25		SoRo (Allen)
3:25 - 3:35
3:35 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:15	Q & A / Open Discussion
4:15 - 4:30	Wrap-Up

Day 2 - Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Lightning Talks

Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome: Gil Nelson Introduction of speaker: Pam Soltis
10:10 - 10:30	Visionary Plenary: Dena Smith
10:30 - 11:30	Biodiversity Digitization Lightning presentations
10:30 - 11:30	Concurrent Session 1.	Concurrent Session 2	Concurrent Session 3
10:30 – 10:40	US National Science Foundation Review, Steve Ellis	Arctos: A Collaborative and Scalable Collection Management Solution Emily Braker, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History	Conveyor-driven mass-digitization of a million specimens does not cost a million Hannu Saarenmaa & Janne Karppinen, Bioshare Digitization Ltd, Ilomantsi, Finland
10:40 – 10:50	US National Science Foundation TIP Program	Post Mortem It Sorts 'Em - Specify 6 and 7: An Overview from a User Perspective Randy Singer, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Using digitisation data to move a herbarium Claire Brandenburger, National Herbarium of NSW, Australian Institute of Botanical Science; Hannah McPherson, National Herbarium of NSW; Andre Badiou, National Herbarium of NSW; Mel Wong, National Herbarium of NSW; Guy Lowe, National Herbarium of NSW.
10:50 – 11:00	US National Science Foundation Review, Reed Beaman	Symbiota: Managing and Mobilizing Biodiversity Data and Supporting Data Providers Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub; Edward Gilbert, Arizona State University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Jenn Yost, California Polytechnic State University; Samanta Orellana, Arizona State University; Greg Post, Arizona State	I’m Lichen These Images: Workflows established for the GLOBAL TCN project. Laura Briscoe, New York Botanical Garden; Leanna McMillin, New York Botanical Garden
11:00 – 11:10	US National Science Foundation Review, Q&A	10 minutes of Q&A with database panel	Digitisation & Mobilisation of CSIRO’s Biological Collections Nicole Fisher, CSIRO; Pete Thrall, CSIRO
11:10 – 11:20	The Art of Imaging Zach Randall, Florida Museum of Natural History	Herbarium Pomeranicum Marta Jarosińska, University of Gdańsk	A workflow for cleaning Notes from Nature data transcriptions Peter Oboyski, Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley
11:20 – 11:30	Histological slides and other sequentially sectioned objects in museums can be re-born digital 3D resources Doug Boyer, Duke University (MorphoSource); Jocelyn Triplett, MorphoSource; Julie Winchester, MorphoSource; Jim Hanken, Harvard; Stephen Turney, Harvard; Brendan Haley, Harvard; Breda Zimkus, Harvard	Tracking biotic association claims across platforms, collections, and institutions. Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute / UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Institute for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration	New data models create new challenges for data sharing: looking at collections through the lens of events Ely Wallis, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO
11:30 – 11:40	Extending the Digital Extended Specimen Amanda Harmon, A.C. Moore Herbarium (USCH); Csilla Czako, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Avery Browning, University of South Carolina School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; Herrick, Brown, A.C. Moore Herbarium (USCH)	ArcGIS Online for born digital data: our experience 6 months in Rick Levy, Denver Botanic Gardens; Michelle DePrenger-Levin, Denver Botanic Gardens|| Digitization and Dissemination of Phylogenetic Data: Using MorphoBank for Morphological Matrix Management Brooke Long-Fox, Phoenix Bioinformatics; Kenzley Alphonse, Kenx Technology, Inc.; Maureen O’Leary, Stony Brook University; Tanya, Berardini, Phoenix Bioinformatics|-	11:40 - 11:50
11: 50 – 12:00	A Fully Digitized Herbarium - Workflows to Keep Up 100% Sylvia Orli, Smithsonian Institution; Ingrid Lin, Smithsonian Institution; Nathan Anderson, Smithsonian Institution	Introducing taxastand and dwctaxon, a pair of R packages for standardizing species names in Darwin Core format Joel Nitta, The University of Tokyo; Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo	DAM it All: Media Metadata and Asset Management Across the Museum Alyson Wilkins, Natural History Museum of Utah
12:00 – 12:10	NMNH - Torsten Dikow	Digi-Leap: Connecting Novel Tools, Machine Learning and Public Participation to Label Digitization Efforts Robert Guralnick, University of Florida; Michael Denslow, University of Florida; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium; Raphael LaFrance, University of Florida; Mark Bouslog, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium; Sean Miller, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium	Reading Others’ Herbarium Specimen Barcodes During Mass Digitization Projects David Shorthouse, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Shannon Asencio, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
12:10 – 12:20	NMNH – Rebecca Snyder
12:20 – 12:30	NMNH – Holly Little
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch

Themed Discussion Groups

Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
1:30 - 2:30	Solutions for long-term image storage and accessibility	Data quality: most common data dealbreakers
2:30 - 3:30	GBIF, ALA, iDigBio: Aligning systems to benefit data mobilization	Sustaining institutional digitization
3:30 - 4:30	Biocultural issues within collections / TK labels	Digital Extended Specimen

Day 3 - Thursday, 29 September 2022

Workshop: hands-on/ sharing resources

Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
11:00 - 1:00	Digitization workflows in Symbiota	Capturing trait data: broad, across different taxonomic groups
1:30 - 3:30	Progress for paleo digitization	Imaging workshop: Where to start
3:30 - 4:00	Looking forward with NSF
4:00 - 4:30	Wrap-Up