IDigBio Vertebrate Digitization Workshop Two

Monday, April 4, 2016

Day One
Time	Topic	Responsible
8:00-8:15	Welcome and Workshop Introduction and Logistics	Michael Nachman, Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Gil Nelson, iDigBio/Florida State University David Bloom, iDigBio/University of California, Berkeley
8:15-8:30	Introduction to iDigBio	Gil Nelson
Data Issues: Content and Discussion, Plenaries
8:30-8:50	Data Standards: Darwin Core	David Bloom
8:50-9:10	Audubon Core & Data Aggregation	Shelley James, Data Management Coordinator, iDigBio
9:10-9:30	Managing media files	Macaulay, Cornell University
9:30-9:50	Data management discussion	David Bloom and Shelley James
9:50-10:10	Break
Data Issues: Breakouts
10:10-10:30	Aggregators and serving data to the web ???	Digital Asset management systems ???
10:30-10:50	Evaluating and selecting a database (survey) ???	Core data to preserve for biodiversity collections ???
10:50-11:10	Symbiota for vertebrate collections Ed Gilbert, Arizona State University	Issues in migrating from one database to another Cody Thompson, University of Michigan
Plenary Morning Wrap-up
11:10-11:30	Selecting what should be databases: Fully populated vs skeletal records	Carla Cicero, MVZ
11:30-12:00	Q&A, discussion, morning wrap up
12:00-1:00	Lunch (provided)
Issues in Imaging Vertebrate Collections
1:00-1:20	Value of imaging: Herpetology	Hinrich Kaiser, Victor Valley College
1:20-1:40	Value of imaging: Ichthyology	John Sullivan, Cornell Univesity
1:40-2:00	Value of imaging: Birds and Mammals	??
2:00-2:30	Discussion: Why image?	Emily Baker (moderator), University of Colorado Product: Composite accounting of the values and uses of specimen images
2:30-3:00	Break
3:00-3:20	Research and other uses of images and digitized specimen data
3:20-3:40	Research and other uses of images and digitized specimen data
4:40-5:00
5:30-6:30
7:00	Dinner on Your Own