Biodiversity Digitization: Celebrating a decade of progress
| DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2021 | |
| Session One 8:30 - 11:00AM EDT | |
| 8:30 | Opening Gil Nelson (iDigBio) & Rebecca Johnson (NMNH) |
| 8:40 | Welcome Kirk Johnson (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) |
| Oral Presentations
Topic: Innovations: Strategy & Coordination | |
| 9:00 | David Blackburn (iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida) |
| 9:20 | Progress in data mobilization: standards, coordination, and linking knowledge
Holly Little (Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)" |
| 9:30 | Creating the Building Blocks for Biodiversity Research
Diane Zorich (Digitization Program Office, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 9:40 | Translating digitization and data mobilization capacity into the geosciences and other disciplines
Gary Motz (Indiana Geological and Water Survey, Indiana University) |
| 9:50 | Session Q&A |
| 10:00 | Virtual NMNH Tour: Botany Conveyor Tour
Sylvia Orli, Eric Schuettpelz, Ken Rahim |
| 10:20 | Addressing key challenges in biodiversity data mobilization and use through the development of regional capacity.
Maheva Bagard Laursen (Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF, Denmark) |
| 10:30 | Digitizing large insect collections - approaches and prioritization for sharing meaningful data and media
Torsten Dikow (Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)" |
| 10:40 | user experience (UX) for citizen science
Mia Ridge (The British Library) |
| 10:50 | Session Q&A |
| Session Two 1:00 - 3:00 PM EDT | |
| Poster Session
Topic: Digitization Spotlights Asynchronous 5 minute prerecorded presentations with Live meet & greet within Kumospace | |
| Session Three 6:00 - 8:00pm EDT | |
| Oral Presentations
Topic: Community | |
| 6:00 | Mobilizing the US Paleontological Collections Community
Talia Karim (Invertebrate Paleontology, CU Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado) |
| 6:20 | South African collections data mobilization and digitization
Michelle Hamer (Natural Science Collections Facility, South African Biodiversity Institute, South Africa) |
| 6:30 | DigiVol: Crowdsourcing Collection Digitisation
Paul Flemons (Digital Collections and Citizen Science, Australian Museum) |
| 6:40 | WeDigBio—Next steps as the community blends a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunities
Austin Mast (Department of Biological Science, Florida State University) |
| 6:50 | Session Q&A |
| 7:00 | Virtual NMNH Tour: Digitizing Molluscs Through Space and Time
Kathy Hollis, Holly Little, John Pfeiffer, Ellen Strong, Bill Moser" |
| 7:10 | We’re in this Together: Arctos Community and the Shared Data Ecosystem
Emily Braker (Vertebrate Zoology, CU Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado) |
| 7:20 | Wei Song Hwang (Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore) |
| 7:30 | Dimitris Koureas (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands) |
| 7:40 | Regional collaboration through GBIF: Latin America and the Caribbean
Anabela Plos (Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF, Argentina) |
| 7:50 | Session Q&A |
| DAY TWO: THURSDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 | |
| Session Four 8:30 - 11:00AM EDT | |
| 8:30 | Global Collaboration for Improved Biodiversity Data
Joe Miller, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) |
| Oral Presentations
Topic: Natural History Collections in Grand Challenges | |
| 8:50 | Rebecca Johnson (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 9:10 | Pam Soltis (iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida) |
| 9:20 | Yvonne Linton (Walter Reed Biosystematics, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 9:30 | Developments in valuing digital collections data
Helen Hardy (The Natural History Museum, London) |
| 9:40 | Session Q&A |
| 9:50 | Virtual NMNH Tour: Tlingit Sculpin Hat
Eric Hollinger, Vince Rossi |
| 10:10 | Extended Digital Specimens on the Internet
Alex Hardisty (School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom) |
| 10:20 | Bird’s Eye View of the Past 10 years of Collections Digitization in the U.S.
Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Garden) |
| 10:30 | speciesLink's data cleaning strategies
Dora Canhos (CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, Brazil) |
| 10:40 | Session Q&A |
| Session Five 1:00 - 3:30 PM EDT | |
| Oral Presentations
Topic: What’s Next | |
| 1:00 | Fatima Parker (South African National Biodiversity Institute) |
| 1:20 | Experiments with knowledge: Equality and access as drivers for collection development
Johannes Vogel (Museum für Naturkunde, Germany)" |
| 1:30 | |
| 1:40 | New Drivers for Digitization at NMNH.
Carol Butler (Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 1:50 | Session Q&A |
| 2:00 | Virtual NMNH Tour: Entomology
Floyd Shockley, Torsten Dikow |
| 2:20 | Paleo, µCT, Deep Learning pipelines and research applications
Stewart Edie (Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 2:30 | Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD, France) |
| 2:40 | Scott Miller (Smithsonian Institution) |
| 2:50 | Hopping from NEON specimens and samples into a web of linked data
Paula Mabee (National Ecological Observatory Network - NEON) |
| 3:00 | Reed Beaman (National Science Foundation) |
| 3:10 | Session Q&A |
| Session Six 6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT | |
| Panelist Discussion & Conference Wrap-up
Topic: Looking to the Future of Digitization | |