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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, [https://twitter.com/iDigBio @idigbio]

=== Announcement Page ===
[https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodigicon-2023-0 BioDigiCon 2022 Announcement page]

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

=== [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OF6LC88MQ-ZckiJyIrfyMvbhOMT9cuDyI7ydmn5J2FY/edit?usp=sharing Abstracts] ===
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OF6LC88MQ-ZckiJyIrfyMvbhOMT9cuDyI7ydmn5J2FY/edit?usp=sharing Click Here to View Abstracts for Oral Presentations and Extended Sessions]

* 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 ===
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/virtual-meeting-resources Virtual Meeting Resources]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-code-conduct iDigBio's Code of Conduct]
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==== Zoom Information ====
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* 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.
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'''''Presenters have submitted pre-recorded presentations for the option to watch asynchronously but all sessions will take place live.'''''
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=== Conference Agenda ===

==== Day 1 - Tuesday, 19 September 2023 ====

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| 9:00 - 9:10  || Welcome from iDigBio - Gil Nelson
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| 9:10 - 9:20 || 2023 Statistics - David Jennings
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| 9:20 - 9:30   || Workforce Development - Austin Mast
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| 9:30 - 9:40  || Cyberinfrastructure - Jose Fortes
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| 9:40 - 9:50  || Symbiota Support Hub - Nico Franz
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| 9:50 - 10:00|| E&O - Libby Ellwood
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| 10:00 - 10:10|| Research - Pam Soltis
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| 10:10 - 10:20 || Events for 2024 - Jill Goodwin
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| 10:20 - 10:40|| Q &A
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|+ style="font-size: 120%; background-color:lightgray;"| 2023 Collection Digitization Spotlight: NHM London
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| 11:00 - 11:30|| Plenary Presentation: 10 years of Digitisation at the Natural History Museum, London <br> Helen Hardy, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qlgoLUp8xb2i9miu2E2NdzwCsup1xwosYKJyC3W5fWY/edit?usp=sharing Presentation Slides]
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| 11:30 - 11:45  || How can communicating about digitisation save our broken planet? <br> Jennifer Pullar, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NeeJRs_6zy5ldMCvq90tAEppAPNrQQ5_/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 11:45 - 12:00  || Digital Services at the Natural History Museum, London <br> Laurence Livermore, Natural History Museum, London 
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| 12:00 - 12:15 || NHM Data Portal - Past, Present, and Future <br> Josh Humphries, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DRiloTErT1PJoEG6nk-IX2fW2LdUKXch/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 12:15 - 12:30 || Transcription & geo-referencing for international collections <br> Krisztina Lohonya, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MhQb-hO8etc04v_RcodIf77IGjq11MgW/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 12:30 - 12:45 || Using Excel Macros for Data Quality Assurance: Lessons Learned from a Coding Beginner <br> Larissa Welton, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qGM_ZZ7_S47THHi-3tAJJDLxdFE7Z50h/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107823171329204692504&rtpof=true&sd=true Presentation Slides]
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| 12:45 - 1:00  || Developing documentation from a team of two to nine - changes along the way <br> Louise Allan, Natural History Museum, London <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NmykvVdqGDN7OpJYIBChwFhNZ-YhFc1j/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 2:00 - 2:15    ||  Adopting Equity in Research and Data <br> Dominik Bednarczyk, World Data Systems - International Technology Office     || Big-Bee Thematic Collection Network: Key Achievements and Insights Over the Past Two Years <br> Katja Seltmann, University of California, Santa Barbara <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jkW6ZDYxD27juxHlvCwWONOeBNuz_oE5/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 2:15 - 2:30    ||  Pacific Island Land Snail Biorepository (PILSBRy): Addressing knowledge shortfalls <br> Nori Yeung, Bishop Museum  <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZSY-AoOnMOQ_woFVE2GOqDai0tK25h2/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]  || Ranges Digitization Network - Extending mammal specimens from the changing landscapes of western North America <br> Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina, Greensboro <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/10tQSKMbcNJizii43Ko94MnuVucZdCZim/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 2:30 - 2:45    ||  Integrating TCN Broader Impacts into Remote Learning Course Design <br> Laura Wilson, Sternberg Museum of Natural History || Using Programmed Stacked Imaging to Accelerate Digitization Efforts <br> Christine Johnson, American Museum of Natural History <br> 

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| 2:45 - 3:00     ||  Remote Operating Vehicle Observation Data Contributions to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System <br> Sean Tippett, Ocean Networks Canada <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oQJ8K0LeSlF5hNjukflM6W36H6ziOm79/view?usp=drive_link Pre-recorded Presentation]   || The future of natural history transcription: navigating AI advancements with VoucherVision and the Specimen Label Transcription Project (SLTP) <br> Will Weaver, University of Michigan

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| 3:00 - 3:15     || Mobilizing PDF-Embedded Biodiversity Data Tables <br> Chandra Earl, UNESCO  <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvP8G7XuPRl-rMjSwciYNeNc_zdhCZN3/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]      || Rapid and reproducible specimen data formatting <br> Rick Levy, Denver Botanic Gardens <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JHmff5TPhujqWSmcYWzN8w6jaDjFaLNl/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]

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| 3:15 - 3:30 || Georeferencing Aotearoa New Zealand for Natural History collections <br> Johno Ridden, Canterbury Museum <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OWTpCWpOkg5_c9NHcbM0dAXUmN-D_EAs/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]  || Building and Sustaining Community through Symbiota Portal Advancement Campaigns <br> Lindsay Walker, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University
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| 3:30 - 3:45 ||ESB's PBS Film: Mollusks: More than a Shell <br> Rüdiger Bieler, Field Museum <br> [https://www.pbs.org/video/1501-mollusk-tx8ngr/ PBS Film] || Biodiversity Data Digitization Training Modules Based on Quadruple Helix Approach <br> Armine Abrahamyan, GBIF National Node for Armenia, Florida Museum of Natural History Museum
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| 3:45 - 4:00 ||ESB's PBS Film: Mollusks: More than a Shell cont.<br> Rüdiger Bieler, Field Museum  || 
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==== Day 2 - Wednesday, 20 September 2023 ====

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| 9:00 - 9:15    ||The supporting database of collectors: an important step in the digitization way <br> Andriy Novikov, State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eM6zmbuVKyRfs-eHsI4L63lyna9qpm6O/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]|| From collection room to virtual museum - South Africa's vertebrate type specimen photography by the Natural Science Collections Facility <br> Margaret Bartkowiak, Natural Science Collections Facility - South Africa <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S6Wbu0nBOXFrpOfFR1ZKGbGBzssI57Ek/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 9:15 - 9:30 ||From tape2tape: problems of long-term storage of animal sounds <br> Klaus Riede, Museum Koenig Bonn ZFMK <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qtEM2kaIc6Eku4rLHO9cG9TdB5DD1QV3/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation] || Advancing Biological Collections with Specify 7 <br> Grant Fitzsimmons, Specify Collections Consortium <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D5B81VXLpa0YJeuJCvz4o626-P5Ph-u_/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]
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| 9:30 - 9:45    || Turning plants into pictures: Our Big Project <br> Maxine Manickum, Natural Science Collections Facility <br> [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g-MB5vDYQdne_QdYWJL86qkU_vL3FwU2WT_tc-Zkh04/edit?usp=sharing Presentation Slides] || Building a Digital Extended Specimen One Association at a Time: What Does It Take to Extend OBI Herbarium Records with their Associated GenBank Sequences? <br> Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute, UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/185fFa7NliGREgqiShpYe-Ht5dT4xIaVu/view?usp=drive_link Pre-recorded Presentation] [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOih6pN8UsECvN-XXQSZiyIKbRhgKsEZ/view?usp=drive_link Presentation Slides] 
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| 9:45 - 10:00 ||All the world's a stage—just not the one I need <br> Craig Brabant, University of Wisconsin - Madison <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x4-petJYo-omBSFuBCX13UzqNq41McKc/view?usp=sharing Pre-recorded Presentation]|| Advancing FAIR Principles: Internship-driven Data Transfer from the Paleobiology Database to MorphoBank <br> Shreya Jariwala, Phoenix Bioinformatics <br> [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPSeDV_r8xLOtZpCNSIElszaZ9s3LDun/view?usp=drive_link Pre-recorded Presentation]
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! style="width:10%;"|Time EDT<br>(UTC-4) !! style="width:45%;"|[https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/dGPrZP0j3qC0gxiwAZTlroFjBibCe9LO-zo9JFuYDWvjkTF8mRqObHYZZFGrZsL8.Wu6UqAWJZft_YKOz?startTime=1695214770000 Recording for Day 2, Room 1, Lightning Presentations & Discussion Sessions]|| [https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/g7y_t-kXKBrn_SeZT138inIngOqxa6GZk8OAWKeG0OsnC_ZAwADpKwRRb6a6ftm3.HiwXtMIk6sRYH--q?startTime=1695219218000 Recording for Day 2, Room 2, BIOFAIR Discussion] <br> [https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/g7y_t-kXKBrn_SeZT138inIngOqxa6GZk8OAWKeG0OsnC_ZAwADpKwRRb6a6ftm3.HiwXtMIk6sRYH--q?startTime=1695223027000 Recording for Day 2, Room 2, E&O Discussion] <br> [https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/g7y_t-kXKBrn_SeZT138inIngOqxa6GZk8OAWKeG0OsnC_ZAwADpKwRRb6a6ftm3.HiwXtMIk6sRYH--q?startTime=1695227683000 Recording for Day 2, Room 2, Designing for Success Discussion]
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| 10:30 - 11:30    || Building the Digitization Coordination Network (DigiCoordNet) <br>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q9PguJY34F18MTroIm3sPF3AoWAcCcB2sXsMDbTjtLw/edit?usp=sharing Live notes document] <br> Jill Goodwin, iDigBio; Holly Little, National Museum of Natural History; Laurence Livermore, The Natural History Museum, London; Gary Motz, Yale Peabody Museum; Sylvia Orli, National Museum of Natural History <br> [https://www.idigbio.org/content/report-digitization-coordination-workshop Click Here to read report from May workshop which led to this effort] <br> ||    
Building an Integrated, Open, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (BIOFAIR) Data Network <br> [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OZiRBphc1nPLY6YN5-ts0iQeyr5q_MgarWX-RmnRIBY/edit?usp=sharing Share Your Input on this Editable Google Doc] <br>Jyotsna Pandey, American Institute of Biological Sciences; Andy Bentley, KU Biodiversity Institute; Libby Ellwood, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History; Anna K. Monfils, Central Michigan University; Barbara M. Thiers, Denver Botanic Gardens; John M. Bates, Field Museum; Dori Contreras, Perot Museum of Nature and Science; Nico M. Franz, Arizona State University; William E. Moser, National Museum of Natural History; Gil Nelson, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History; David Nobles, The University of Texas at Austin; Sinlan Poo, Memphis Zoological Society; Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell, Yale Peabody Museum; Mike Webster, Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Breda M. Zimkus, Museum of Comparative Zoology
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| 11: 30 - 12:30 ||  || Creativity and innovation in natural history education and outreach <br> Libby Ellwood, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History; David Levering, Sternberg Museum of Natural History; Gwen and Winnie Blake, Field Museum; Tito Abbo, University of California, Riverside; Shyla Davison, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History
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| 12:30 - 1:30   || SERNEC Herbaria Digitization Lessons Learned: Symposia and Discussion <br> Csilla Czako, SCDNR NHT Botany and Conservation Program/USCH   || Designing for success—initiating new digitization and strategic planning for your collection <br> Austin Mast, iDigBio, Florida State University; David Jennings, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History; Chandra Earl, Bishop Museum; Maraine Targino, National Museum of Brazil; Amanda Young, Toolik Research Station; Eric Jones, University of Maine.
 
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|+ style="font-size: 120%; background-color:lightgray;"| Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center
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|1:30 - 3:30 ||colspan="2"|<strong>Making the Case for an Action Center</strong>
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| 1:30 - 1:45 || Libby Ellwood || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18i8HG6cB38rAt-RtdL3tFQVgQg_CZttSDBHFqursix0/edit?usp=sharing Orientation and Framing]
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| 1:45 - 3:30  ||colspan="2"| <strong>Presentations from the Organizers</strong>
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| 1:45 || Breda Zimkus || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18i8HG6cB38rAt-RtdL3tFQVgQg_CZttSDBHFqursix0/edit?usp=sharing Envisioning an Action Center: Common Themes from Webinars and Workshops]
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| 1:55 || Pam Soltis || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18i8HG6cB38rAt-RtdL3tFQVgQg_CZttSDBHFqursix0/edit?usp=sharing Setting the stage for an Action Center in the NASEM Report and CHIPS Act]
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| 2:05 || John Bates || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EB3pE7tKEZRwQyzEghKF9cA91LQfq8ul/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111742770266580746739&rtpof=true&sd=true Building the national network of networks for collections-based biodiversity data and research]
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| 2:15 || Emily Sessa || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AcZU0gA0SphiCpf3U609eECt57GTR42g/view?usp=sharing Looking back from the future: Thinking big about an Action Center’s potential accomplishments]
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| 2:25 || Matt Borths || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e73YxDFm9mc6BuJxsyfFOB3vIx5Zf9ss/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111742770266580746739&rtpof=true&sd=true How an Action Center could help living collections and zoos]
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| 2:35 || Jill Goodwin || Coordinating digitization across collections
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| 2:45 || Gil Nelson || Broadening the scope of "biological" collections
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| 2:55 || Joe Cook || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17b6XHG5_AhaRL36w8csxF-BQqKymskF6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111742770266580746739&rtpof=true&sd=true Strategically building biodiversity infrastructure for societal concerns]
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| 3:05 ||Discussion || 
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| 3:30 - 4:30   || Visionary Plenary & Discussion: Opportunities for Collections in the Growing Bioeconomy <br> Diane DiEullis, Assistant Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University: 
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| 4:30 - 4:45   || Thank you for attending: Gil Nelson
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