Specimens Full Circle SPNHC 2015
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This wiki supports the SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use, Gainesville, Florida, 20 May, 2015.
This symposium has three tracks: collection of museum specimens, digitization (includes imaging and other media), and use of the resulting digitized data in research.
Abstract. Novel field-collecting methods providing richer specimen data, maturing transcription and imaging techniques, and up-dated end-user interfaces are resulting in greater access to and use of specimen data for a variety of purposes. This has led to increasing use of museum specimen data for analysis and the development of visualization tools that facilitate research and support educational needs and outreach opportunities.
As a collector, have you updated your field-collecting protocols? Do you map your field-collected data to current standards (like Darwin Core or Audubon Media)? Do you use hand-held devices and apps when collecting specimens? Or are you designing an app? Are you attaching globally unique identifiers in-the-field? As a collection manager, curator, technical assistant, informatics manager, programmer,…have you sped up transcription and imaging at your institution? Are you implementing novel methods for assuring data quality and fitness-for-research use? Have you incorporated crowd-sourcing and georeferencing into your digitization workflows? How are you incorporating digitization, social media, and use of specimen data into your education and outreach strategies? Have there been new research outputs and capabilities made possible by the changes you have made in your workflows? As a graduate student or current researcher do you have new research to share using specimen data? To all in the SPNHC community and beyond, please come show us what is working, what is still challenging, and what you’re accomplishing with specimen data.
SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle - Agenda and Logistics
- Agenda (see below or google doc)
- All Day Wednesday May 20th, 2015. Start time: 8:30 am
- SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use - Calendar Announcement
- Twitter: @iDigBio @SPNHC #collectingspecimens #digitization #datause and conveners: @denasmithnufio @vblago @idbdeb
General SPNHC 2015 Information
Collaborative Documents
- Google Doc for Symposium Group Notes
- Schedule is embedded in the Google Doc
Conference and Symposium Blog Post
Blog post
Photos
- Facebook album
Symposium Presentation Recordings
Wednesday, 20 May 2015 First morning session.
- 8:30 - 8:50 Introduction to the Symposium. Dena Smith, Vladimir Blagoderov, Deb Paul
- BioAcoustica: an open repository and analysis platform for wildlife sounds. Ed Baker
- Natural history museum collections provide information on phenological change in British butterflies since the mid-19th century. Angela Self and Stephen J. Brooks
- Specimen label digitization using OCR/NLP tools integrated within the Symbiota processing toolkit. Ed Gilbert, et al
- Using museum data for large-scale questions: modeling Florida plant diversity. Charlotte Germain-Aubrey, Julie Allen, Robert Guralnick, Kurt Neubig, Jose-Miguel Ponciano, Thomas Lamy, Douglas Soltis, Lucas Majure, Pamela Soltis.
- Training the next generation of biodiversity scientists. François Michonneau¹, Deb Paul²
- Accelerating Digitization of Biodiversity Research Specimens through Online Public Participation. Libby Ellwood, et al.
- The new and improved Armchair Botanist. Richard Rabeler.
- Using Accessioned Collections for Assisted Breeding of Endangered Species. Samantha Wisely
- The contribution of small collections: A case study for Fuireneae (Cyperaceae). Heather Dame, et al.
- An herbarium informatics study of the Order Ranunculales within West Virginia with emphasis on plants of key ethnobotanical importance using herbarium specimens. Joshua Hamrick and Emily Gillespie
- The scrub-lovin' grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplus: The Puer Group) of the southeastern U.S.: integrating specimen data from then and now for maximum effect. Derek Woller and Hojun Song
- Joining up for digitisation – a pilot project between Kew and the Natural History Museum. Kew - Alan Paton, Sara Phillips, Elizabeth Woodger, et al. NHM - Sandy Knapp, Theresa Howard, Jonathan Gregson, Steve Cafferty, Jacek Wajer, Ben Atkinson
- Taxonomic concept resolution for voucher-based biodiversity information platforms. Nico Franz, et al
- Ann Molineux
- Lindsay Walker
- Talia Karim
- Vladimir Blagoderov
- Evan Anderson
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- Emily Gillespie
- Ben Atkinson
- Laurence Livermore
- Sally Shelton
- Steen DuPont
Symposium Presentation PowerPoints and PDFs
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
- 8:30 - 8:40 Introduction to the Symposium. Dena Smith, Vladimir Blagoderov, Deb Paul