SiBBr Launching Event

iDigBio, Digitarium, GBIF, and others were invited by SiBBr to present a one-day workshop on Best Practices in managing and digitizing biological collections. This event was held as part of the launch, the kick-off, of the SiBBr project in Brazil.

Description of the SiBBr project

• Overview of Day 1 (from Andrea)

Agenda and Presentations for Day 2

9:00-10:30	Introduction and Overview of Digitization Welcome, Introductions and Goals of Workshop – Andrea Nunes Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (USA) – Greg Riccardi GBIF Global Perspectives (in Portuguese (ppt) – Tim Hirsch Introduction to the Five Task Clusters of Digitization (ppt) – Deb Paul Questions and Discussion
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00	Data Mobilization and Data Management: Data Mobilization through GBIF: the global infrastructure (in Portuguese) (ppt) – Tim Hirsch Data mobilization from the perspective of a GBIF Node (in Portuguese) (ppt) - Rui Figueira
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:15	Task Cluster 1: Pre-digitization curation and staging (ppt) – Deb Paul
14:15 – 15:00	Task Cluster 2: Specimen Image Capture Photography equipment and techniques – Paul Mayer Insects on Pins – Riitta Tegelberg Drawer imaging – Paul Mayer Specimens in fluids – Paul Mayer Questions and Discussion
15:00 – 15:30	Task Cluster 3: Specimen image processing Managing images –Paul Mayer Advanced photography, stacking and 3d – Greg Riccardi
15:30 – 16:00	Task Cluster 4: Electronic data capture Collection data management and data capture (ppt) – Deb Paul Transcription and crowd sourcing – Greg Riccardi Digitization Tools Optical Character Recognition, Parsing, Consensus in Crowdsourcing (ppt) – Andréa Matsunaga Questions and Discussion
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00	Task Cluster 5: Georeferencing and Enrichment of specimen data Georeferencing (with GeoLocate) (ppt) – Deb Paul GBIF data: research use cases (in Portuguese) (ppt) – Tim Hirsch
17:00 – 17:30	Automation of digitization activities Digitarium – Riitta Tegelberg
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion and wrap up

Recordings

The event was recorded and when these become available, will be linked here from the Brazilian website.

Important Links

• GBIF
• Digitization
• Digitarium
• Canadensys
• Future Plans