OBFS Field Station Digitization 2016

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Workshop Documentation

Agenda, Day 1
Tuesday, 21 September 2016

Day One
Time Topic Presenter(s)/Leader(s)
1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions Gil Nelson, iDigBio
1:30 p.m. iDigBio, ADBC, and the National Digitization Initiative David Jennings, iDigBio/University of Florida
1:55 p.m. Motivating Field Stations to Digitize Faerthen Felix and Jeff Brown, Sagehen Creek
2:20 p.m. Progress at Archbold under an NSF CSBR award: what's done, what's still to do, and a few unexpected opportunities Hilary Swain, Archbold Biological Station
2:45 p.m. The California Plan: Pursuing an ADBC TCN Kevin Browne, UC NRS
3:10 p.m. Break
10:15-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45-11:15 a.m. The case for 2D imaging Mark Sabaj-Perez
11:15-12:00 p.m. The case for 3D imaging
Photogrammetry
Hank Bart, Tulane
Nelson Rios, Tulane
12:00-12:30 p.m. The case for CT imaging David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-1:45 p.m. Review and discussion of pre-workshop survey results

(including discussion of the status of databasing in fish and herp collections)

Gil Nelson
1:45-3:00 p.m. Status of imaging at participating collections:
Document for notetaking

Each participant to have 3 minutes to outline the status of imaging at their institution.
* Current imaging practices
* how are images being used
* Issues to resolve
* Future plans
* Challenges
* Institutional choices about what to image
* Preferences: 2D, 3D, CT, no imaging
* Institutional predispositions regarding the value and use of images

Greg Watkins-Colwell, Yale Peabody Museum, moderator
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-4:30 p.m. Imaging for data collection: An overview Miriam Zelditch, U. Michigan
Donald Swigerski, U. Michigan
4:30-4:45 p.m. Discussion/Q&A: Imaging for data collection Miriam & Donald
moderators
4:45-5:00 p.m. Daily wrap-up, observations, comments, challenges, criticisms, further discussion Greg Watkins-Colwell
moderator
Dinner on Your Own

Recommended gathering place: Houlihans
Reservation at 6:15 pm, Meet in hotel lobby at 6:00 pm