7th Annual Digital Data Conference, Arizona State University

Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

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Information about getting around Tempe, where to stay, and things to do in Phoenix can all be found on the Conference Logistics Page.

Conference Registration

Registration is open.
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Registration fees
Registration fees include the conference, workshops, and refreshments and hors d'oeuvres at poster session and reception:
In-person, Non-student Registration (including virtual participation): $100 In-person, Student Registration (including virtual participation): $50 Virtual Participation Only: *Optional

• Optional virtual registration fees will support the digital format technology, the editing and publication of abstracts, and keeping the conference sustainable. Registration fees are optional for virtual participants but encouraged. When registering, those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference will have that option. Although registration is optional, your registration information, even if you opt out of the fee, will allow us to keep you updated about conference activities.

Conference Abstracts

Options for submission include: poster presentation, oral presentation, or an extended session (workshop, symposium, discussion, etc.).

You must register to submit an abstract.
The abstract submission link will be sent to you in your registration confirmation email.
Abstract submission deadline: 26 April 2023

Format
The conference will be structured to allow live presentations among different time zones. Live presentations will be organized by theme and format. Concurrent session blocks will include virtual and in-person presentations. All presenters will additionally be asked to submit a recording of their presentations to be posted on this wiki to ensure their availability to any time zone.
Suggested themes for 2023 abstract submissions:
Addressing the fundamental questions of evolutionary biology and ecology,
Meeting the research challenges of the Anthropocene,
Biodiversity data archives for education and science outreach,
New tools for data discovery and analysis,
Future, untested frontiers for natural history collections.

Monday, 5 June 2023

Day One - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT
Plenary Session
Time	Room 1
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome - Conference framing - Gil Nelson, Director, iDigBio Conference logistics - Jill Goodwin, Conference Manager, iDigBio
9:30 - 10:00	A computer vision for organismal biology Arthur Porto, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Click for Bio
10:00 - 10:30	Before the Pharaohs: Breaking New Ground in the Study of Egypt's Ancient Prehistory Sanna El-Sayed, Co-founder of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP), Mansoura University, Egypt & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, USA Click for Bio
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Concurrent Sessions
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00

Day One - Lunch Break

12:00 - 1:00 PM PDT

SEINet Networking Lunch

The Symbiota Support Hub invites all personnel involved with the SEINet Network to a community-building lunch. Get to know your fellow local curators, collections managers, regional botanists, and other plant folks. Lunch will be provided for attendees who p[re-register here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ1VGkiMVnilYQZ7ehWqnJ3E9FD-p8Kt99Utn-0q94sNCzEg/viewform) by Thursday, June 1st.

Day One - Block Two
1:00PM - 4:00PM PDT
Discussion Sessions
Time	Room 1
1:00 - 2:15	Discussion Session 1 Symbiota Skillshare and Capacity Building Workshop Symbiota portals–including the SEINet Network, the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria, the Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria, and many more–include a variety of features that enable efficient data management, access, and curation. In this workshop, we will provide hands-on training in using Symbiota tools that allow users to, for example, upload data, manage annotations, manage loans, print label data, crowdsource data transcription, and create checklists. Desired topics and questions will be solicited before the workshop for focus during the session. We will invite all current or potential users of Symbiota portals to participate in the workshop, especially local (SW US) data managers from the SEINet Network, so they can build data management skills. Lindsay Walker, Arizona State University; Ed Gilbert, Arizona State University; Greg Post, Arizona State University
2:15 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:45	Discussion Session 2 Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center The collections community is in the midst of a series of webinars, workshops, and focus groups focusing on Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center as proposed in the recent NASEM report and authorized by the U.S. Congress in summer 2022 as part of the CHIPS and Science Act. We have conducted three webinars and one workshop to date and are very interested in including a range of voices from the biodiversity sciences community. We are bringing together U.S. collections and research professionals to consider the products and services an action center might offer to strengthen and sustain U.S. biodiversity collections. We are scheduling an in-person focus/discussion group during this year's Digital Data Conference to broaden the input into the Action Center concept. We hope you can attend.

Day One - Block Three
4:30PM - 6:30PM PDT
Reception
Time	Room 1
4:30 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 6:00
6:00 - 6:30
6:30 - 7:00

Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Day Two - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT
Discussion Sessions
Time	Room 1
9:00 - 11:00	Discussion Session 3 Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept This two-hour workshop and discussion session will bring together biodiversity informatics and data experts from throughout our community to address some of the possibilities and challenges implementing the Digital Extended Specimen concept. This session will address solutions to date and additionally look to the community for input and discussion. More information coming soon!

Day Two - Block Two
1:00PM - 4:00PM PDT
Plenary Session
Time	Room 1
1:00 - 1:30	Crop Wild Relatives and the Role of Herbaria in Future Food Crop Security Makenzie Mabry, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Click for Bio & Abstract
1:30 - 2:00	Data for Whom? Intellectual Property, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty Krystal Tsosie, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Beckett Sterner, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Click for Bios
2:00 - 2:15	Break
Concurrent Sessions
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 3:30
3:30 - 3:45

Day Two - Block Three
4:30PM – 6:30PM PDT
Reception
Time	Room 1
4:30 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 6:00
6:00 - 6:30
6:30 - 7:00

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Day Three - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT
Discussion Sessions
Time	Room 1
9:00 - 10:00	Open discussion: the NEON Biorepository infrastructure model This discussion session is offered to complement the opportunity to visit the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON Biorepository, in person during Digital Data 2023 at Arizona State University. Click here for a video introduction. The NEON project involves a structured, long-term plan to sample new, diverse, prioritized specimens across distributed sites of the North American subcontinent, process and store them a both intermediary peripheral facilities and a permanent centralized location, transform them into Darwin Core occurrences and published extended specimens, and actively make both samples and data available for loan to enable question-driven ecological and evolutionary research. To begin this session, we will offer an introductory presentation of the operational concept and implementation of the NEON Biorepository and of the associated data portal (https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/), which dynamically integrates standards from ecological and biodiversity data domains. We will then open the floor for discussion, based on an initial set of framing themes and questions, to jointly explore the prospects of this model in relation to current and future developments in the national and global biocollections infrastructure and data communities. Kelsey Yule, Edward Gilbert, Azhar Husain, Andrew Johnston, Rosie Liao, Laura Rocha Prado, Laura Steger; all Arizona State University.
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:15	Poster Session

Day Three - Block Two
12:00PM - 2:00PM PDT
Plenary Sessions
Time	Room 1
12:00 - 12:30	Communities of practice across the Americas Samanta Orellana, International Community Coordinator, Symbiota Support Hub & Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University Jenn Yost, Community Lead, Symbiota Support Hub & Associate Professor, Cal Poly Click for Bios
12:30 - 1:00	Final Mystery Plenary Speakers
2:15 - 2:30	Break
2:30PM - 4:30PM PDT
Concurrent Sessions
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
2:30 - 2:45	Concurrent Session	Concurrent Session	Concurrent Session
2:45 - 3:00	Concurrent Session	Concurrent Session	Concurrent Session
3:00 - 3:15	Concurrent Session	Concurrent Session