This workshop will build on experience gained by participants in Part I of the series (Using Wikidata to capture and share information about people in paleontology) to explore the possibility of using Wikidata to curate community knowledge about paleontological collecting sites.
This workshop will serve as a hands-on introduction to finding, editing, and using data in wikidata, using people associated with paleontology collections (e.g., collectors, researchers, collections staff) as subjects for this introduction. Wikidata offers a solution for capturing and sharing information about people that allows the paleontology community to capitalize on the distributed knowledge curated by individual collections.
Join colleagues every other Tuesday at noon Eastern in an informal, biweekly discussion on various topics related to digitizing paleontology collections and sharing the digitized data. No advance registration required, and you are welcome to drop in for only part of the hour! Recordings and notes from past discussion sessions can be found linked to the Paleo Digitization Working Group wiki.
Digitized paleontological collections recontextualize the ecology of introduced turkeys in California
Contributed by: Ashwin Sivakumar & Alexis Mychajliw
Written by Erica Krimmel.
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The Paleo Digitization Working Group held a virtual workshop, Georeferencing for Paleo: Refreshing the approach to fossil localities, on April 28-29, 2020 with 52 participants based at 29 institutions.
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Title: Georeferencing for Paleo - Listening Session
Date: (1) Wednesday, January 29th at 3pm US Eastern Time and/or (2) Thursday, January 30th at 10am US Eastern Time
As the paleo collections community wraps up several TCNs we recognize that a significant amount of digitization work remains to be done and that georeferencing is one of the next big roadblocks.
Contributed by Jennifer Bauer, Samantha Ocon, Jeanette Pirlo, and Molly Phillips
iDigBio staff and students will at the Geological Society of America Annual Conference to give presentations and host the iDigBio exhibit. The event will be from 22-25 September in Phoenix, Arizona. Find us at booth # 705.
For more information about the conference visit the website: https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2019/home
Title: The Problem of Time: Dealing with Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Specimens in Darwin Core
Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Time: 1 PM (DST), 12 CDT, 2 PM Buenos Aires, 6 PM London, 17:00 UTC
Photo: Andrew Waits
Co-conveners:
The FOSSIL Project, in partnership with the Paleontological Society and the iDigBio Project, is sponsoring a four-part webinar series in Spring 2017 promoting Women in Paleontology. Connect to the webinars at http://bit.ly/WiPWebinar. If you have questions, please contact fossil@flmnh.ufl.edu.
April 26, 7-8pm Eastern, Lisa White (University of California Museum of Paleontology
The FOSSIL Project, in partnership with the Paleontological Society and the iDigBio Project, is sponsoring a four-part webinar series in Spring 2017 promoting Women in Paleontology. Connect to the webinars at http://bit.ly/WiPWebinar. If you have questions, please contact fossil@flmnh.ufl.edu.
March 29, 7-8pm Eastern, Cindy Lockner (Florida Fossil Hunters)
The FOSSIL Project, in partnership with the Paleontological Society and the iDigBio Project, is sponsoring a four-part webinar series in Spring 2017 promoting Women in Paleontology. Connect to the webinars at http://bit.ly/WiPWebinar. If you have questions, please contact fossil@flmnh.ufl.edu.
February 22, 7-8pm Eastern, Brenda Hunda (Cincinnati Museum Center)
The FOSSIL Project, in partnership with the Paleontological Society and the iDigBio Project, is sponsoring a four-part webinar series in Spring 2017 promoting Women in Paleontology. Connect to the webinars at http://bit.ly/WiPWebinar. If you have questions, please contact fossil@flmnh.ufl.edu.
January 25, 7-8pm Eastern, Tara Lepore (Alf Museum of Paleontology/Webb Schools)
Topic: eMesozoic
Leaders: Emma Bernard, Lil Stevens, Pip Brewer, NHM London
More details to follow.
For more about eMesozoic, see https://blog.nhm.ac.uk/tag/emesozoic/.
Webinar Topic: Serving your georeferencing data via data aggregators
Leader: Erica Clites, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA
This webinar will define and discuss common DarwinCore terms related to georeferencing and discuss factors to consider when serving your georeferencing data online. If you are currently serving your georeferencing data, come prepared with the list of terms you serve or just bring your questions!
The iDigBio Paleo Data and Digitization Working Group is pleased to host a webinar led by Dr. Scott Foss, Bureau of Land Management Senior Paleontologist. The webinar will provide an opportunity to learn about and discuss the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009 (PRPA)
This session at GSA 2016 will focus on paleontology/geo databases, data standards related to paleontology, and mobilization of research-quality paleontology data to iDigBio and other aggregators. These topics have sparked considerable interest amongst the iDigBio Paleontology Digitization Working Group and are a natural extension of existing digitization programs.
The Paleobiology Database Executive Committee is running a hackathon with the goal of creating exciting tools (web applications, R code, data analysis tools, data visualization tools, integration with other web databases, etc.) that use the Paleobiology Database API for research, education, or outreach.
When and where? March 20th-22nd, 2015, on the campus of UC Santa Cruz.
Arguably the most important joint gathering of paleo and geo scientists in North America, the annual conference of the Geological Society of America (GSA) regularly attracts more than 5,000 participants, several hundred posters and presentations, and an array of vendors and exhibitors.
