Advances in Digital Media Workshop Series: Yale

Workshop at Yale Peabody Museum: June 2024

When: June 10-11, 2024
Where: Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT
Organizers:
Expected Number of Participants:

Logistics Information

Lodging: Omni Hotel (155 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06510)

Parking: On campus parking is challenging. Please use public parking at or near the Omni.

Travel from Airport to New Haven:

From Hartford: There are multiple options traveling between Hartford and New Haven. The Hartford Line can bring you from Windsor Locks Station to New Haven Station, but an additional shuttle service would be needed to get from the airport to the train station, then the train station to the Omni. An Uber/shuttle to New Haven is another option. If possible, please reference the rideshare document to see if sharing a ride with another workshop attendee is possible.

From JFK: JFK to Train route – At JFK you hop on the Airtrain which takes you to Jamaica Station (20-30 min). There you hop on the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station (20-30min). At Grand Central you hop on the Metro North Train to New Haven Union Station (about 2 hours). Airtrain you can just swipe your credit card ($8.50) to get through the turnstyle. For the Long Island Rail Road (about $5) and the Metro North ( $18.25 (off-peak)-24.50 (peak)), you can buy tickets right before boarding using the MTA Train Time app. Once at New Haven Union Station, it’s a short 5-10min Uber to the Hotel. For first timers, I would plan 4 hours in case you miss a train. Advanced tip- There is also a combo ticket from the LIRR station that is a bit cheaper during peak travel, but requires you buy tickets using the train time app while at the station (uses your phone's gps).

Additional travel information and options from both airports can be found here: https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/campus-services/travel/air-travel/airport-shuttle

Rideshare doc to self-organize with other attendees.

Workshop Location: Yale Peabody Museum (170 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511) The museum is an easy 18-minute walk from the Omni. Cross Chapel street directly in front of the hotel and follow Temple St or Church St all the way to Whitney Ave, then continue straight to the museum. Use the side entrance on Sachem St. Workshop participants interested in walking as a group should meet in the Omni lobby by 8:00am to walk to the museum.

Start Time: Please arrive to the museum no later than 8:30am! Presentations will be streamed to a virtual audience. We need to start the day promptly at 9:00am.

Submitting your presentation: Please add your slides to this folder prior to the start of the workshop

Reimbursement: You will be reimbursed for associated expenses following the workshop. UF will only reimburse meals at a per diem rate - you do not need to save meals receipts. Receipts will be needed for any other associated fees (transportation, lodging, luggage, etc.)

Here is the final lineup of speakers: [Will add once Kit finalizes the wiki]

If you have any additional questions or encounter any problems during travel, please reach out to Nelson Rios (New Haven local) 504-723-2085 or Jill Goodwin 508-887-6043

Workshop venue:

Yale Peabody Museum

Wifi networks: If you are coming from an institution that uses eduroam that will be available on the Yale campus. If that is not the case, then you can connect via the Yale Guest wifi.

Meals: Breakfast, break refreshments, and lunch will be provided at the Yale Peabody Museum on both workshop days. Dinner is not provided, but you will be reimbursed for meals not provided following the workshop.

Referencing Pre-Workshop Materials

Resource 1:**CONFIRM WITH JILL IF WE NEED THIS SECTION**

Agenda

	Day 1: Monday, June 10
8:00	Breakfast on your own or light snacks at the Museum
9:00	Morning Welcome	Nelson Rios/Austin Mast
9:10	Multi-view text detection for LightningBug	Mark Hereld, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
9:20	Virtual Label Reconstruction for LightningBug	Nicola Ferrier, Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
9:30	Multi-modal imaging for next-generation heritage science	Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
9:30	Q&A	Whole Group
9:50	Preserving and Sharing Museum CT Scans at an Institutional Data Repository	Peter Cerda, Associate Librarian, Data Curation Specialist, University of Michigan
10:00	Let the Records Show: Attribution of Scientific Credit in Natural History Collections	Rebecca Dikow, Director of Computational Methods and Data, Yale Library
10:10	MorphoSource: A Community 3D Data Repository for Representational Media	Julie Winchester, Technical Director, MorphoSource 3D Data Repository, Duke University
10:20	Q&A	Whole Group
10:40	Interoperability of Information Ecosystems: Envisioning Collaboration between Biodiversity Informatics, Remote Sensing, and Ecology	Kit Lewers, PhD Student, University of Colorado Boulder
10:50	TBD	Ed Stanley, Florida Museum of Natural History
11:00	Recent advancements in the Audiovisual Core standard for biodiversity multimedia	Steve Baskauf, Data Science and Data Curation Specialist, Vanderbilt University (retired)
11:10	Q&A	Whole Group
11:30	Expanding LeafMachine2: new training data, models, and methods for processing herbarium specimens	Will Weaver, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
11:40	Large-scale, research-ready herbarium trait extraction with confidence-based deep-learning	Quentin Bateux, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
11:50	Challenges linking traits and harmonization for big data research	Rob Guralnick, Curator of Biodiveristy Informatics, Florida Museum of Natural History
12:00	Q&A	Whole Group
12:20	Lunch
1:30 - 4:30	Group Activity: Compiling Resource Summary of Day 1 (Rooms 118, 107) - Need to be out by 5:00

	Day 2, June 11: Virtual Showcase Highlighting Innovative Technologies for downstream data use Topics include: Harmonizing data for research, Innovation, Big Data, Non-conventional technologies to promote research and increase visibility ||
8:00	Breakfast on your own or light snacks at the Museum
9:00	Welcome back	Jillian Goodwin
9:10	Image Informatics for Metadata Extraction and Verification of Museum Specimen Images	David E. Breen, Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University
9:20	FishAIR as a model system for AI-Readiness and skipping the data pre-processing	Yasin Bakış, Sr Manager of Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science, Tulane University
9:30	Knowledge-guided Machine Learnring for Discovering Biological Traits from Images	Anuj Karpatne, Associate Professor of Compute Science, Virginia Tech
9:40	Extracting phenological information from specimen images	Daijiang Li, Assistant Professor, LSU
9:50	Q&A	Whole Group
10:10	IIIF: Standards, Communities, and Tools for Sharing High-Quality Attributed Digital Objects at Scale	Julie Winchester, Technical Director, MorphoSource 3D Data Repository, Duke University
10:20	An AI infrastructure for Natural History collections	Arthur Porto, Curator of AI, Florida Museum
10:30	Mapping out phenotypic diversity in a large family of butterflies	Moritz Lürig, Postdoctoral Researcher
10:40	A link between biomedical and natural history research	Matteo Fabbri (remote), Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
10:50	AI Based 3D Modeling Methods Capture Complex Subjects in Uncontrolled Environments	Alex Adkinson, Researcher, Florida State University, iDigBio
11:00	Q&A	Whole Group
11:20	The 'museum philosophy', digitization, and the Macaulay Library	Glenn Seeholzer, Curator, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
11:30	TBD	Neha Hulkund
11:40	TBD	Eddie Vendrow
11:50	Q&A	Whole Group
12:10	From fossils to footsteps: reconstructing dinosaur locomotion with computer animation	Armita Manafzadeh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
12:20	Recent Advances in 3D modelling – Machine learning, Morphometrics and Conservation tools	Duncan Irschik, Professor, UMASS Amherst
12:30	TBD	Mike Webster
12:40	Q&A
1:00	Lunch
2:00-4:30	Group Activity: Compiling Resource Summary of Day 2 (Rooms 118, 107)