BioDigiCon 2023
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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, @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
Time EDT | Zoom link |
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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 |
Time EDT | Zoom link |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Plenary Presentation: 10 years of Digitisation at the Natural History Museum, London Helen Hardy, Natural History Museum, London |
11:30 - 11:45 | How can communicating about digitisation save our broken planet? (Pullar) |
11:45 - 12:00 | Digital Services at the Natural History Museum, London (Wing) |
12:00 - 12:15 | NHM Data Portal - Past, Present, and Future (Humphries) |
12:15 - 12:30 | Transcription & geo-referencing for international collections (Lohonya) |
12:30 - 12:45 | Using Excel Macros for Data Quality Assurance: Lessons Learned from a Coding Beginner (Welton) |
12:45 - 1:00 | Developing documentation from a team of two to nine - changes along the way (Allan) |
Time EDT | Zoom link for Day 1, Room 1 | Zoom link for Day 1, Room 2 |
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2:00 - 2:15 | Adopting Equity in Research and Data (Bednarczyk) | Big-Bee Thematic Collection Network: Key Achievements and Insights Over the Past Two Years (Seltmann) |
2:15 - 2:30 | 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) |
2:30 - 2:45 | Online resources for supporting remote learning (Wilson) | Using Programmed Stacked Imaging to Accelerate Digitization Efforts (Johnson) |
2:45 - 3:00 | 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) |
3:00 - 3:15 | Mobilizing PDF-Embedded Biodiversity Data Tables (Earl) | Rapid and reproducible specimen data formatting (Levy) |
3:15 - 3:30 | Georeferencing Aotearoa New Zealand for Natural History collections (Ridden) | Building and Sustaining Community through Symbiota Portal Advancement Campaigns (Walker) |
3:30 - 3:45 | PILSBRy (Yeung) | (Blomberg?) |
3:45 - 4:15 | ESB's PBS Film: Mollusks: More than a Shell (Bieler) |
Day 2 - Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Time EDT | Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1 | Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2 |
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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) | Advancing Biological Collections with Specify 7 (Fitzsimmons) |
9:30 - 9:45 | Turning plants into pictures: Our Big Project (Manickum) | 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) |
9:45 - 10:00 | All the world's a stage—just not the one I need (Brabant) |
Time EDT | Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1 | Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2 |
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10:30 - 11:30 | Building the Digitization Coordinator Network (DigiCoordNet) | BIOFAIR Data Network |
11: 30 - 12:30 | Designing for success—initiating new digitization and strategic planning for your collection | Innovative Approaches to E&O |
12:30 - 1:30 | SERNEC Herbaria Digitization Lessons Learned: Symposia and Discussion (Czako) ? |
Time EDT | Zoom link | |
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1:30 - 3:30 | Presentations from Organizers | |
1:30 | Libby Ellwood | |
1:40 | John Bates | |
1:50 | Emily Sessa | |
2:00 | Breda Zimkus | |
2:10 | Matt Borths | |
2:20 | Pam Soltis |
Time EDT | Zoom link |
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3:30 - 4:30 | Visionary Plenary: Diane DiEullis, CIV US NDU: Bioeconomy Presentation & Discussion |
4:30 - 4:45 | Thank you for attending: Gil Nelson |