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Join the leading researchers and professionals striving to digitize our nation's Natural History Collections! The annual ADBC Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, PENs, NSF, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit inspires collaboration and focuses discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities.
General Information
- When: November 2-3, 2017
- Where: Gainesville, Florida
- Venue: University of Florida Cultural Plaza
Maps & Dining Information
Note: There is a restaurant in the Hilton. On maps, it is listed as "Albert's." It is now a "Shula's Steakhouse."
Area Information
Ground Transportation Options
- Hilton Courtesy Shuttle
- Gainesville Regional Transit System: Gator Locator; Campus Routes; City Routes
- Parking at the UF Cultural Plaza
- Lyft
- Uber
- Bike Share for Gainesville
Wireless Service
Wireless access for onsite iDigBio participants is provided by the University of Florida. Refer to iDigBio's Wireless Network Service wiki page for more information on how to connect.
Remote Access
To the extent possible, the Summit sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect. If you wish to listen to the meeting remotely:
- First, read the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki Page to get you started.
- Connect to the meeting:
- Navigate to: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/summit7
- Choose Enter as Guest.
- Type your First and Last Name and affiliation in the box provided.
- Click Enter Room.
Summit Program
We are in the process of preparing an interactive PDF program for the Summit. Check back here for a download link as the meeting gets closer. Note that we also plan to print a one-page, double-sided reference agenda for distribution at the Summit.
Agenda
Monday, October 30, 2017 thru Tuesday, October 31, 2017 -- Data Carpentry
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| 9:00-4:30 | Data Carpentry Workshop
The UF Carpentries Club and iDigBio are offering a two day Data Carpentry Workshop to help participants in the 2017 ADBC Summit and the UF community get started learning R and common data management tools such as the spreadsheets, OpenRefine, and SQL. Need to learn some programming for a class? Have data you're scared to work with in Excel? Want to collaborate effectively with your peers? We were there once too. Come start learning with us! Visit the workshop website to learn more: https://idigbio.github.io/2017-10-30-iDigBio-Summit-UFII/ |
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 -- Florida Museum Collections Tours
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| 2:00-5:00 |
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 -- Pre-Summit Meetings
| Time | Harn Galleria | Harn Chandler Auditorium | Harn Classroom 1 | Harn Classroom 2 | Powell Classroom | McGuire Classroom | McGuire Director's Conference Room | |||||||||
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| Morning | Breakfast on your own | |||||||||||||||
| 8:00-10:00 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | iDigBio-GBIF Whiteboarding Session on Worldwide Collections-Level Data (closed session) | Open meeting space | |||||||||
| 10:00-10:30 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Setup | Open meeting space | |||||||||
| 10:30-12:00 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Orientation - Welcome to ADBC by the iDigBio Core Team Join us for an iDigBio and ADBC orientation session where we will present information-fit-for-use about the following:
Everyone is welcome! Come to learn, to refresh, to meet your fellow digitizers! |
External Advisory Board pre-meeting 11-12 | 12:00-1:00 | Lunch on your own | |||||||
| 12:30-1:00 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Setup | Setup | Setup | |||||||||
| 1:00-5:00 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Reserved for oVert Breakout Sessions | oVert TCN Kickoff Meeting oVert PIs and associated team members will discuss short-term and long-term goals related to standardized methods for CT-scanning and data deposition and interactions with both research and educational communities. We will also have breakout groups focused on selection of specimens and taxa, mechanisms for reporting and tracking, methods development, and community outreach and training. |
IDigBio External Advisory Board (closed session) | |||||||||
| 5:00-5:15 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | |||||||||
| Evening | Dinner on your own | |||||||||||||||
| 6:30-9:30 | Informal welcome and meet & greet with iDigBio staff in the No Name Lounge inside the Hilton | |||||||||||||||
Thursday, November 2, 2017 -- Summit Day 1
| Time | Harn Galleria | Harn Chandler Auditorium | Harn Classroom 1 | Harn Classroom 2 | Powell Classroom | McGuire Classroom | McGuire Director's Conference Room | ||||||||||
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| Morning | Breakfast on your own | ||||||||||||||||
| 8:00-9:00 | Setup | Setup | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Review of iDigBio in Supporting Thematic Collection Networks (Neil Cobb) Since 2011, the NSF-ADBC program has funded 20 Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs) and 24 Partners to Existing Networks (PENs). The role of TCNs is to mobilize a community of museums and herbaria to provide specimen related data and media to iDigBio. Additionally, they collaborate with each other and iDigBio to promote the use of digitization products for research and education. As part of its role in advising iDigBio, the IDigBio External Advisory Board (EAB) wants to better understand the relationship between iDigBio and the TCNs in order to assess how iDigBio is meeting community needs. |
Open meeting space | ||||||||||
| 9:00-9:30 | Arrival, Summit check-in, coffee, networking | Networking, getting settled | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | ||||||||||||
| 9:30-10:35 | Unavailable |
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| 10:35-10:55 | Morning break | Open meeting space (no food allowed) | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | ||||||||||||
| 10:55-12:10 | Unavailable |
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| 12:10-1:15 | Unavailable | Open meeting space (no food allowed) | Box lunch provided | Open meeting space | |||||||||||||
| 1:15-2:30 | Unavailable | Group Discussion: Data Integration, Attribution and Interoperability (Andy Bentley, Robert Gropp) Collections, aggregators, data re-packagers, publishers, researchers, and external user groups form a complex web of data connections and pipelines. This forms the natural history infrastructure essential for collections use by an ever increasing and diverse external user community. We have made great strides in developing the individual actors within this system and we are now well poised to utilize these capabilities to address big picture questions. We need to continue work on the individual aspects, but the focus now needs to be on integration of the functionality provided by the actors involved in the pipeline to facilitate the transfer of data between them with as few human interventions as possible. In order for the system to function efficiently and to the benefit of all parties, information, data, and resources need not only to be integrated efficiently but flow in the reverse direction (attribution) to facilitate collections advocacy and sustainability. For instance, there are benefits to collections from inclusion into aggregators and subsequent use by researchers and publishers that are not being realized. The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) is planning a program of workshops in conjunction with other groups to perform a needs assessment to identify gaps and problems in the data pipeline and explore future steps in coordinating efforts, providing solutions and standardizing tools and methods. This talk will explore this landscape and highlight BCoN’s efforts in this regard while soliciting participation from actors in the pipeline and the community at large. |
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| 2:30-3:00 | Unavailable | Open meeting space (no food allowed) | Afternoon break | Open meeting space | |||||||||||||
| 3:00-4:15 | Unavailable | Meeting of the Symbiota Working Group (Neil Cobb, Andy Miller)
Session Notes: https://goo.gl/wbj7km |
WeDigBio Planning Meeting (Austin Mast and Libby Ellwood) After a brief introduction to the annual Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event, participants will brainstorm new innovations for WeDigBio 2018, including the development of a virtual science festival (e.g., on the Sococo platform) and virtual reality collections tours and field experiences. |
Legal Issues with Collections (Linda S. Ford) As biodiversity collections are increasingly available online, they will be under increasing scrutiny. The Nagoya Protocol – a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity – has important implications for the conduct of U.S. biological collections, especially those whose data are available digitally. Knowledge of the protocol is not widespread among researchers or institutions. This session will discuss legal concerns associated with digitized collections and mitigating these issues using digital means. Compliance with the Nagoya Protocol will be a test case to evaluate how institutions must respond to requirements for increased transparency and digital tracking. |
oVert/MorphoSource Working Group (David Blackburn) Hands-on demonstration of issues related to DOIs, iDigBio integration, etc. |
Meeting of the iDigBio student group (open to all students)
The iDigBio student group plans to write a review paper about use cases of natural history collection data, which will simultaneously summarize resources for using the iDigBio database. We hope to address some of the roadblocks that prevent digital data use and create a repository of codes/methods etc. that can be used and referenced to overcome these issues. In the process of creating the review paper we will in situ highlight the work that iDigBio students, researchers and other users have done thus far, and can do in the future with this rich database. Join us to discuss the process for creating the review paper (including formalizing the iDigBio student group, a discussion of individual responsibilities and deadlines etc.). |
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| 4:15-4:30 | Unavailable | Transition to Auditorium for wrap-up | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | ||||||||||
| 4:30-5:00 | Unavailable | Day 1 Wrap-up (Shari Ellis) | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | ||||||||||
| 5:00-6:30 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | iDigBio meeting with NSF (closed session) | ||||||||||
| 6:30-9:30 | Evening program at the Florida Museum of Natural History (Powell Hall)
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Friday, November 3, 2017 -- Summit Day 2
| Time | Harn Galleria | Harn Chandler Auditorium | Harn Classroom 1 | Harn Classroom 2 | Powell Classroom | McGuire Classroom | McGuire Director's Conference Room | |||||||||
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| Morning | Breakfast on your own | |||||||||||||||
| 8:00-9:00 | Setup | Setup | Unavailable | Unavailable | Setup | Setup | Open meeting space | |||||||||
| 9:00-9:20 | Arrival, Summit check-in, coffee, networking | Unavailable | Unavailable | Open meeting space | ||||||||||||
| 9:20-9:30 | Logistics, Announcements | Unavailable | Unavailable | Open meeting space | ||||||||||||
| 9:30-10:10 | Unavailable | DemoCamp (Matt Collins, Alex Thompson) Live demos and talks of community-contributed software.
Session Notes: https://goo.gl/gQcw1p |
Unavailable | Unavailable | Workshop on Collections Data in Ecological and Conservation Research (Libby Ellwood, Chrissy Alba, Deborah Paul, Anna Monfils, Larry Page) The ICER Working Group (Integrating Collections and Ecological Research), along with BCoN, will present a half-day workshop centered around ecologists who incorporate collections data in their scientific research and sharing a potential model program for integrating collections data in conservation efforts. Speakers invited will give talks representing community examples of museum specimen data integrated with other biodiversity data to enhance and inform efforts to address key ecological questions and support conservation efforts. |
Changes/Improvements to the iDigBio Portal (Richard Garand, Joanna McCaffrey, Shari Ellis) Overview of the iDigBio Portal with emphasis on use cases, features introduced since last presentation and NSF survey results. |
Three Insect Projects (Neil Cobb, Crystal Maier, Jen Zaspel, Catherine Hulshof, Akito Kawahra, Caitlin Chapman) Agenda 1. Database Before You Label Protocol 2. Inselect and insect soups (Jen and Neil) 3. Puerto Rico Hurricane support: Developing a reference base for a re-survey of butterflies (Catherine) Database Before You Label Protocol: Finalize workflow(s) for rapidly digitizing material from “collecting events”, especially where a large amount of material is brought into the collection from inventories. The workflow is database neutral (Arctos [Derek Sikes], EMu [Crystal Maier], institutional [Chris Marshall], Specify [AndrewShort], Symbiota [ Neil Cobb]), it will be scalable from small to large institutions, and it will be cross-phyla functional (e.g., plants/herbaria, insects/museums). Develop strategy to ensure all museums adopt workflow. Inselect: With the newer DSLR cameras that have 50 megapixel capacity it is possible that many museums might be able to use Inselect https://vimeo.com/160792078 can be used more widely. Puerto Rico: Catherine Hulshof (U. of Puerto Rico) will discuss a Puerto Rican-Caribbean Lepidoptera project to study butterfly (maybe some moths) recovery/recolonization of areas destroyed. We will develop a strategy to have museums digitize their holdings of Puerto Rican/Caribbean butterflies as a good reference data set. | |||||||||
| 10:10-10:25 | Morning break | Open meeting space (no food allowed) | Unavailable | Unavailable | Morning break | Open meeting space | ||||||||||
| 10:25-12:30 | Unavailable | DemoCamp (continued)
Session Notes: https://goo.gl/gQcw1p |
Unavailable | Unavailable | Workshop on Collections Data in Ecological and Conservation Research (continued) Session Notes: https://goo.gl/D4oK8Z |
iDigPaleo Meeting (Talia Karim) This session will focus on current and future developments for iDigPaleo and how you can utilize the portal for your education and outreach needs. iDigPaleo was build as a proof of concept E&O portal for the Fossil Insect Collaborative. It currently hosts data for the FIC-TCN and the CW-TCN, with several other projects to be added this fall. Bring your ideas for the future of this portal (including any ideas you might have for a new name!). |
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| 12:30-1:30 | Unavailable | Open meeting space (no food allowed) | Box lunch provided | Open meeting space | Open meeting space | Open meeting space | ||||||||||
| 1:30-3:15 | Unavailable | Building a Local Carpentries Community (Matt Collins, Deborah Paul) The capacity to manage, manipulate, and analyze data is important to modern research programs. Ensuring research staff and students have access to the education and learning opportunities to maintain their development is the role of PIs, program heads, and institutional directors. Peer teaching and learning communities provide a learner-lead environment that is easy to foster and support in parallel with formal structures like academic curricula and professional development. We will describe our experiences at UF and FSU developing a community centered around the Data and Software Carpentry organizations to advance the informatics capacity of our organizations. |
Broadening Participation & Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) (Anna Monfils, Molly Phillips, Libby Ellwood) This session is an introduction and invitation to participate in two new initiatives related to biodiversity education: Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) a newly funded RCN-UBE, and the Broadening Participation in Biodiversity Sciences Working Group. Following a brief presentation on the two project’s upcoming activities and opportunities, facilitators will lead participants in a discussion focusing on the following: 1) What core data skills do all undergraduate biology students need to access and interpret data from digital natural history collection archives? 2) What resources are currently available for introductory biology instructors wanting to use collections based digital data in the classroom? and 3) What resources are available to biodiversity scientists seeking to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the biodiversity sciences. |
iDigBio Office "Hour" (Shari Ellis) This session is an open forum to interact with iDigBio staff. Come ask questions and/or brainstorm about other topics related to iDigBio's interaction among ADBC. |
Specify meeting (Andy Bentley) Specify software manages species and specimen data for biological research collections with a full suite of software: desktop, web, and iPad applications, as well as cloud-based hosting. With new versions of Specify 6 and 7 having just been released with additional features to support the GGBN data model as well as data publishing, this session will be a drop in session that will include a short status update of Specify, a quick overview of key features, and discussion of our future vision. There will be time for Q & A and help desk problem solving/support and an opportunity to discuss TCN issues with Specify. |
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| 3:15-3:30 | Unavailable | Transition to Auditorium for wrap-up | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup | |||||||||
| 3:30-4:00 | Unavailable | Summit Wrap-up (Gil Nelson) Breakout Summaries: https://goo.gl/rCgN54 |
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| 4:00-5:45 | Natural History Seminar at the Harn Chandler Auditorium in collaboration with the Florida Museum's Department of Natural History, iDigBio, the FOSSIL Project, and the Paleontological Society
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| 5:45pm-6:00pm | Unavailable | Cleanup | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | |||||||||
| Evening | Dinner on your own | |||||||||||||||
| 7:00-9:00 | Drink with the Extinct at the Florida Museum (optional activity)
Separate registration and payment is required, but a discount code will be available for Summit participants (contact us for details). Registration for this event opens Monday, September 25. Event details are available on the Florida Museum's website. | |||||||||||||||
Saturday, November 4, 2017 -- Optional Activities & Field Trip
Self-Guided Activities
- National Fossil Day™ at the Florida Museum: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/fossil-day/
- 100th Anniversary Exhibit at the Florida Museum: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100years/
- Tree of Life Exhibit at the Harn Museum of Art: http://www.harn.ufl.edu/treeoflife
- Natural Area Teaching Laboratory: http://natl.ifas.ufl.edu/
- Hike around Lake Alice (including Bat House): http://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/campuswaterquality/water/lake-alice.shtml
Guided Field Trip
Sweetwater Wetlands Preserve
- Information: http://www.sweetwaterwetlands.org/
- Registration: Contact Cathy Bester
- Fee: None
- Where to meet: Hilton Lobby
- When: 8 AM pickup; 11 AM dropoff