IDigBio Workshops

Overview

Materials from completed workshops will typically be archived in the iDigBio Forum to enable ongoing discussion. Codified documentation will reside on the iDigBio Documentation page. Other material may be displayed via Wikis or external publications. The iDigBio Workshops page will serve as the index to link to deliverables produced by each workshop.

Workshop Documentation

Date	Workshop Name	Brief Summary	Links
11/29/2011 - 12/01/2011	iDigBio Summit 2011	Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.	Summit Summary Participant Survey Presentations
03/28/2012- 3/30/2012	IT Standards Workshop	Bring together experts in biodiversity informatics and related fields. Priorities include: 1) harmonizing data and metadata requirements for digital collections; 2) examining semantic and linked-data approaches to biodiversity data interoperability; 3) developing training and testing resources for georeferencing; 4) defining storage capabilities, interoperability, and computational requirements for the national resource.	Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 AM Day 3 PM Breakout Groups (Day 1): Minimum Information for Scientific Collections (MISC) Semantics of Biodiversity Cyberinfrastructure Breakout Groups (Day 2): MISC Media Requirements Breakout Groups (Day 3): Cyberinfrastructure Georeferencing Ingestion Presentation Slide Decks Lightning Talks
04/27/2012- 04/28/2012	Paleocollections Workshop	Address the digitization needs, opportunities and Grand Challenges of the US Paleontological collections community throughout the US.	Presentations
05/30/2012- 5/31/2012	DROID Workshop	This research workshop addresses the design, documentation, and optimization of Object-to-Image-to-Data workflows for digitizing biological specimens which are curated in thousands of museum and herbarium collections worldwide.	Agenda Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Day 1 AM Day 1 AM2 Day 1 PM Day 1 PM2 Day 2 AM Day 2 AM2 Day 2 Final Session Breakout Groups (Day 1): Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Breakout Groups (Day 2): Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Presentation Slide Decks Training session: Workflow Core Concepts Workflow Elements and Concepts - Common Practices Social Issues in Collaborative Digitization Business Process Modeling
07/12/2012	Botany 2012	The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections.	Botany 2012 Workshop Presentations Botany 2012 Symposium Presentations
09/17/2012- 9/18/2012	Digitizing Plant Collections Workshop	iDigBio is offering a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching, and maintaining a biological collections digitization program. The first of these workshops will focus on vascular and non-vascular plant digitization and will be held at Valdosta State University, September 16­–18, 2012. All workshop materials can be accessed via the Workshop Wiki Page	Live Audio/Video Digitizing Plant Collections Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks Workshop Presentations and Recordings
09/28/2012- 9/29/2012	Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Subject Workshop Workshop Wiki Page	This workshop seeks to identify ways to engage the public in the ongoing digitization of biodiversity specimens.	Audio/Video Recordings Main Room: Adobe Connect Recordings Presentation Slide Decks Presentation Slides
10/01/2012- 10/02/2012	iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group workshop	In order to identify best practices and to develop tools for this process and plan a hackathon, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) will hold an “iDigBio Augumenting OCR” workshop October 1-2, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida. Workshop Wiki Page	Introduction to iDigBio Slide Set Intro to iDigBio pdf file Augmenting OCR Attendee List Conceptual Agenda Agenda by Day Hackathon Topic List - "our wish list" A-OCR Priority Issues Outlined Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks Presentations
10/08/2012- 10/12/2012	iDigBio's first Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing Workshop Train the Trainers Workshop Agenda	This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right). Workshop Wiki Page	Introduction to iDigBio Slide Set Intro to iDigBio pdf file Pre Workshop Survey Questionnaire Attendee List Photos - Meet Workshop Attendees Train the Trainers Map GWG Trainers Workshop Logistics Train the Trainers Agenda Workshop Notes Audio/Visual Recordings Adobe Connect Recordings Presentation Slide Decks
10/23/2012- 10/24/2012	iDigBioSummit 2012	Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.	Summit 2012 Agenda
02/13/2013- 02/14/2013	iDigBio Augmenting OCR Hackathon	This Hackathon addresses OCR output and natural language parsing of natural history museum's specimen label data.	Links to be added
03/05/2013- 03/06/2013	iDigBio Wet Collections Digitization Workshop	This new workshop will focus on digitization of wet collections, to include specimen label databasing, specimen imaging, ledger and field book imaging, and digitization of legacy objects such as X-rays, CT scans, and 35mm slides.	Links to be added
04/23/2013- 04/25/2013	iDigBio Entomology Digitization Workshop	Information to be added	Links to be added