BioDigiCon 2023

iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually on 19-20 September 2023.

Social Media

Twitter: #biodigicon2023, @idigbio

Announcement Page

BioDigiCon 2022 Announcement page

Conference Registration

Registration is open! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-biodigicon-tickets-673866140767

Abstracts

Registration is required to submit an abstract. The submission link will be in your registration confirmation from Eventbrite.

• Abstract submission deadline is Friday, September 1st.

• Lightning Presentations will be 15 minutes including time for questions.
• All presenters will be asked to provided a pre-recorded presentation and additionally present live virtually.

Conference Resources

• Virtual Meeting Resources
• iDigBio's Code of Conduct
• Update your Zoom client for the latest security enhancements

Zoom Information

• Make sure you have upgraded your Zoom client.
• We suggest using the desktop client or mobile app, which use less bandwidth than Zoom in your browser. See Zoom help for more: https://bit.ly/2RM0rzQ.
• We will be using the Zoom webinar platform. Only speakers' cameras and microphones will be enabled.
• Please use the Zoom Q&A feature if you have questions for the presenters. The chat function will only be used for discussion.

Recording Policy

By attending iDigBio’s online events, you accept that the event will be recorded and posted for later asynchronous viewing.

Presenters have submitted pre-recorded presentations for the option to watch asynchronously but all sessions will take place live.

DRAFT Conference Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday, 19 September 2023

iDigBio Updates

Time EDT	Zoom link
9:00 - 9:10	Welcome from iDigBio - Gil Nelson
9:10 - 9:20	2023 Statistics - David Jennings
9:20 - 9:30	E&O - Libby Ellwood
9:30 - 9:40	Cyberinfrastructure - Jose Fortes
9:40 - 9:50	Symbiota - Nico Franz
9:50 - 10:00	Workforce Development - Austin Mast
10:00 - 10:10	Research - Pam Soltis
10:10 - 10:20	Events for 2024 - Jill Goodwin
10:20 - 10:40	Q &A

2023 Collection Digitization Spotlight: NHM London

Time EDT	Zoom link
11:00 - 11:20	Plenary Presentation: Helen Hardy, Natural History Museum, London
11:20 - 1:00	Symposium: 10 years of Digitization at London's Natural History Museum

Lightning Presentations from US Collections

Time EDT	[Zoom link for Day 1, Room 1]	[Zoom link for Day 1, Room 2]
2:30 - 2:45	Adopting Equity in Research and Data (Bednarczyk)	Big-Bee Thematic Collection Network: Key Achievements and Insights Over the Past Two Years (Seltmann)
2:45 - 3:00	Advancing FAIR Principles: Internship-driven Data Transfer from the Paleobiology Database to MorphoBank (Jariwala)	Ranges Digitization Network - Extending mammal specimens from the changing landscapes of western North America (McLean)
3:00 - 3:15	SC Herbaria Data Standards (Czako)	Using Programmed Stacked Imaging to Accelerate Digitization Efforts (Johnson)
3:15 - 3:30	Remote Operating Vehicle Observation Data Contributions to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (Tippett)	The future of natural history transcription: navigating AI advancements with VoucherVision and the Specimen Label Transcription Project (SLTP) (Weaver)
3:30 - 3:45	Mobilizing PDF-Embedded Biodiversity Data Tables (Earl)	Rapid and reproducible specimen data formatting (Levy)
3:45 - 4:00	Georeferencing Aotearoa New Zealand for Natural History collections (Ridden)	Building a Digital Extended Specimen One Association at a Time: What Does It Take to Extend OBI Herbarium Records with their Associated GenBank Sequences? (Poelen)

Day 2 - Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Biodiversity Digitization Lightning Presentations

Time EDT	Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1	Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2]
9:00 - 9:15	The supporting database of collectors: an important step in the digitization way (Novikov)	From collection room to virtual museum - South Africa's vertebrate type specimen photography by the Natural Science Collections Facility (Bartkowiak)
9:15 - 9:30	From tape2tape: problems of long-term storage of animal sounds (Riede)	Online resources for supporting remote learning (Wilson)
9:30 - 9:45	Turning plants into pictures: Our Big Project (Manickum)
9:45 - 10:00	All the world's a stage—just not the one I need (Brabant)

Themed Discussion Groups

Time EDT	[Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1]	[Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2]
10:30 - 11:30	Digitization Coordination	Innovative Approaches to E&O
11: 30 - 12:30	BIOFAIR Data Network
12:30 - 1:30	Digitization Academy	Internship Program

Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center

Time EDT	Zoom link
1:30 - 3:30	Presentations from Organizers

Closing Plenary

Time EDT	Zoom link
3:30 - 4:30	Visionary Plenary: Diane DiEullis, CIV US NDU: Bioeconomy Presentation & Discussion
4:30 - 4:45	Thank you for attending: Gil Nelson