Join the leading researchers and professionals striving to digitize our nation's Natural History Collections! The annual ADBC Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, PENs, NSF, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit inspires collaboration and focuses discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities.
General Information
Maps & Dining Information
Area Information
Ground Transportation Options
Special Accommodations
- Nursing mothers needing accommodations should contact Shari Ellis at sellis@ufl.edu for assistance.
- Individuals needing assistance with ground transportation from the Hilton to the Cultural Plaza should speak with Hilton front desk staff.
Wireless Service
Wireless access for onsite iDigBio participants is provided by the University of Florida. Refer to iDigBio's Wireless Network Service wiki page for more information on how to connect.
Remote Access
To the extent possible, the Summit sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect. If you wish to listen to the meeting remotely:
- First, read the iDigBio Web Conferencing wiki page to get you started.
- Connect to the meeting:
- Navigate to: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/
- Choose Enter as Guest
- In the box provided, please type your First Name, Surname, and Affiliation in this format: Allie Gator (UF)
- Click Enter Room
Agenda
- We plan to print and distribute a condensed program at the Summit. Please consider the environment if printing this schedule.
- Open meeting space is available in the Summit rooms when not in session.
- The McGuire Director's Conference Room will remain an open meeting space throughout the Summit.
Monday, October 1, 2018 -- Orientation and Pre-Summit Meetings
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Powell Classroom (Front)
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Powell Classroom (Middle)
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McGuire Classroom
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McGuire Director's Conference Room
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| 7:00-9:00
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Breakfast on your own
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| 9:00-11:00
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Orientation to ADBC
Join us for an orientation session presented by the iDigBio core team. Everyone is welcome! Come to learn, to refresh, and to meet your fellow digitizers! We will cover topics including:
- What ADBC and iDigBio are about, the acronyms, the scope
- How you can get involved by participating in interest and working groups, community surveys, and useful website content
- How to get specimen data to us, the first time and with every update
- Ways to interact with us - listservs, meet the staff
- Forum for suggestions to make all of this better
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iDigBio-GBIF-ALA Meeting Closed Session
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| 11:00-12:30
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Lunch on your own
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| 12:30-4:30
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TCN Kickoff Meeting - Endless Forms
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TCN Kickoff Meeting - Pteridological Collections Consortium
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TCN Kickoff Meeting - Capturing California's Flowers
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iDigBio External Advisory Board Closed Session
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| 12:30-1:30
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EAB pre-meeting
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| 1:30-3:00
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EAB meeting with iDigBio
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| 3:00-4:30
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Working time for EAB
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| 5:00
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Adjourn
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| 6:30-9:30
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Informal welcome and meet & greet with iDigBio staff No Name Lounge inside the Hilton
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 -- Summit Day 1
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Harn Galleria
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Harn Chandler Auditorium
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Harn Classroom 1
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Harn Classroom 2
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Powell Classroom
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McGuire Classroom
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McGuire Director's Conference Room
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| 7:00-9:00
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Breakfast on your own
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| 8:15-9:00
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Arrival, Summit check-in, coffee, networking
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Not available
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Not available
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| 9:00-10:15
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Plenary Session I
| Opening & Welcome
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| 9:00-9:15
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Opening & Welcome
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Larry Page
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| 9:15-9:30
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Logistics
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David Jennings
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| 9:30-9:45
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ADBC Program Update
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Reed Beaman
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| New TCN Introductions
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| 9:45-10:00
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Capturing California's Flowers
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Jenn Yost
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| 10:00-10:15
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Pteridological Collections Consortium
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Carl Rothfels
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| 10:15-10:30
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Endless Forms
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Matthew Pace
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Not available
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Not available
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| 10:30-11:00
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Morning Break (provided)
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Not available
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Not available
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| 11:00-12:00
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Plenary Session II
| Fossilized TCNs
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| 11:00-11:15
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Paleoniches & Cretaceous World
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Bruce Lieberman
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| 11:15-11:25
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Fossil Insect Collaborative
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Erica Krimmel
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| 11:25-11:35
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Fossil Marine Invertebrates
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Pat Holroyd
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| TCNs that Bug People
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| 11:35-11:50
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SCAN & LepNet
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Neil Cobb
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| 11:50-12:00
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InvertEBase
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Rudiger Bieler
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Not available
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Not available
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| 12:00-1:00
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Lunch (provided)
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| 1:00-2:20
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Plenary Session III
| Mutualist TCNs
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| 1:00-1:10
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Microfungi
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Andrew Miller
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| 1:10-1:20
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Macroalgae
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Chris Neefus
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| TCNs We Dig
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| 1:20-1:30
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SERNEC
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Zack Murrell
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| 1:30-1:40
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MAM
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Cindy Skema
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| 1:40-1:50
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SoRo
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Erin Tripp
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| TCNs with a Backbone
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| 1:50-2:00
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Great Lakes Invasives
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Ken Cameron
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| 2:00-2:10
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oVert
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David Blackburn
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2:10-2:20
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Vouchered Animal Communication
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Michael Webster
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| 2:20-2:50
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Afternoon Break (provided)
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| 2:50-4:00
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Plenary Session IV
| Group Discussion
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| 2:50-3:20
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Panel Discussion with Retired TCNs
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Rich Rabeler
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| 3:20-4:00
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Harnessing Natural History Collections Data for Addressing National Challenges
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Barbara Thiers
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| 4:00-4:30
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Day 1 Wrap-Up Shari Ellis
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| 4:30
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Adjourn
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| 6:30-9:30
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Evening at the Florida Museum Powell Hall
| Program
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| 6:30-7:30
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Arrival, heavy hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
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| 7:30-7:45
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Welcome by Roland Roberts, NSF Program Director and BIO Centers Science Advisor
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| 7:45-8:00
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Presentation TBD
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| 8:00-9:30
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Museum exhibits open for your enjoyment
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 -- Summit Day 2
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Harn Galleria
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Harn Chandler Auditorium
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Harn Classroom 1
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Harn Classroom 2
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Powell Classroom
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McGuire Classroom
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McGuire Director's Conference Room
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| 7:00-8:45
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Breakfast on your own
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| 8:15-8:45
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Arrival, coffee, networking
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Not available
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Not available
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Biotic Associations: Informal Open Session I
The primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss how existing species interaction datasets are structured and how to increase our ability to generate aggregate datasets and examine networks of interactions. The ADBC program has promoted the mobilization of tens of millions of specimen-level data in natural history collections in the United States and many of these datasets contain rich species interaction data. During the first meeting Jorrit Poelen (Global Biotic Interactions, GloBI) and Katja Seltmann (UC Santa Barbara, Parasite Tracker) will present a recent Vampire Moth (Calyptra) interaction data use case, setting the stage for open discussion that will likely carry through the second meeting. We encourage participants to submit interaction datasets before the meeting so that they can be discussed as use cases. You can describe, point to, or share, your datasets by opening a new issue via https://tinyurl.com/shareInteractionData . You can also see how GitHub issues are used to openly discuss how to share specific existing biotic association datasets.
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| 8:45-10:20
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Plenary Session V
| Opening
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| 8:45-9:00
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Logistics
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David Jennings
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| Evolving Relationships
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| 9:00-9:20
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GBIO, GBIC2, and GBIF
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Donald Hobern
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| 9:20-9:40
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Activities at the Atlas of Living Australia
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Hamish Holewa
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| 9:40-10:00
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Sustaining the ADBC Initiative
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Gil Nelson
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| 10:00-10:20
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UF/FLMNH Commitment to the Sustainability of iDigBio
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Doug Jones
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Not available
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Not available
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| 10:20-10:45
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Morning Break (provided)
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Not available
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Not available
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Biotic Associations: Informal Open Session II
The primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss how existing species interaction datasets are structured and how to increase our ability to generate aggregate datasets and examine networks of interactions.
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| 10:45-12:00
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Concurrent Session I
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Demos & Innovations I Matt Collins
| Agenda
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| PhyloLink
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Joe Miller
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| Light Box Design
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Cindy Skema
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| iDigBio API
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Richard Garand
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Symbiota2 Overview Neil Cobb
This first session will cover upcoming software developments and outreach plans for the Symbiota NSF-ABI project.
| Agenda
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| Symbiota - Part 1
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Curtis Dyreson
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Virtual
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| Symbiota - Part 2
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Ben Brandt
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Virtual
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| Phylogeny and Phenology Plugin
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Will Pearse
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Virtual
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| Mobilizing data in developing countries: Pakistan & Somaliland
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Mary Barkworth
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Virtual
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| Technical Support and Outreach
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Neil Cobb & Lindsie McCabe
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In-person
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| Fieldguide
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Andre Poremski
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Virtual
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Specify Collections Consortium I Jim Beach
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Communicating Science Natasza Fontaine & Austin Mast
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Challenges in Research Use of Data Pam Soltis
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| 12:00-1:00
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Lunch (provided)
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| 1:00-2:15
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Concurrent Session II
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Demos & Innovations II Matt Collins
| Agenda
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| ADBC Education Resources
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Molly Phillips
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| BiotaPhy web platform
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Pam Soltis
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| Analytical tools
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Pam Soltis
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Symbiota Portals & Software Tools Neil Cobb
This second session will feature presentations on new efforts to expand TCN portals and the creation of synthetic Symbiota portals. It will also include new developments for projects that integrate with Symbiota (e.g., GeoLocate).
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| Biotic Associations: GLoBI
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Jorrit Poelen
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In-person
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| PhyloLink
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Joe Miller
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In-person
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| Geolocate
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Nelson Rios
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In-person
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| GenBank linkage
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Andrew Miller
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In-person
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| Creating a multi-phyla Symbiota portal for U of Wisconsin collections
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Laura Prado
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In-person
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| Developing a Global Mycology Portal
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Scott Bates
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In-person
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Specify Collections Consortium II Jim Beach
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Communicating with Administrators Gil Nelson & David Jennings
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Innovation & Unconference Deborah Paul
Bring your inspirations from recent experiences, conversations. and presentations at ADBC Summit 8 to this breakout. We will gather ideas and find others with innovative ideas and expertise to share. An unconference gives you the chance to design your own breakout and bring timely topics that are on your mind - to a larger group.
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| 2:15-2:45
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Afternoon Break (provided)
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Afternoon Break (provided)
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| 2:45-4:00
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Concurrent Session III
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Building Institutional Digitization Synergy Kevin Love, Deborah Paul, & Larry Page
Data mobilization doesn’t (have to) stop when digitization is complete or grant funds have been exhausted. In this discussion group, we will explore how efforts, like a local digitization committee or leveraging institutional resources and policy, can inspire data mobilization across your collaborators' institutions.
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Georeferencing Andrew Miller & Michael Denslow
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Data Quality Feedback Richard Garand & Deborah Paul
Quality data is essential as a foundation for analytical, synthetic, and AI research. Anyone providing data to an aggregator or downloading data from an aggregator can make use of the data quality feedback offered. If you use this information, we would like to hear about how you use it (or not) and ways in which all of us can work on improving data quality (dq). From researcher, policy maker, graduate student, collection manager, curator, educator, and museum director, we all have a role to play. We also plan to share some of what we learned from a recent survey and symposium at SPNHC-TDWGNZ -- on this topic. And, we'll share some ideas for possible future changes to dq feedback from iDigBio as well as recent progress from the TDWG Data Quality Interest Group and iDigBio implementation plans.
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Broadening Participation Molly Phillips & Kari Jordan
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| 4:00-4:10
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TRANSITION TO AUDITORIUM FOR WRAP-UP
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| 4:10-4:30
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Summit Wrap-Up David Jennings
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| 4:30
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Adjourn
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 -- Optional Post-Summit Activities
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| Option
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Activity
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One-day R Workshop
The UF Carpentries Club is offering a one day workshop to help the UF community get started learning R. Need to learn some programming for a class? Have data you're scared to work with in Excel? Want to collaborate effectively with your peers? We were there once too. Come start learning with us. Space is limited to 24 participants for this workshop and registration is required. A fee of $23.00 will be charged and lunch will be provided. Please plan on attending the entire time. Details and registration are on the workshop web site: https://uf-carpentry.github.io/2018-10-04-ufii-one-day/
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Field Trip to Sweetwater Wetlands Park
Details TBD
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| 3
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Collection Tours
Details TBD
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| 4
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Self-Guided Activities
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Report and Evaluation
Photos
Recorded Proceedings
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