2015 Retreat Ideas

2015 iDigBio Retreat

• When: Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm EST
• Where: Learning Center at the Austin Cary Forest (10625 NE Waldo Rd, Gainesville, FL 32609)

Ideas regarding the Retreat format

• Breakout groups
• One large discussion group
• Presentations

Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat

• Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary
• How to make our training sustainable
  • Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability
  • Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
  • Perhaps partner with Coursera
• Website update and sustainability
• Topics that come up at the Summit
• Automation
• Mendeley vs. Biblio
  • Improve discoverability
  • Keep iDigBio content and published articles separate
• Get a Library Science grad student to help us with our document repository concerns (I asked Greg R. to look for someone: JM)