[tdwg-content] BigDig 2017: High Throughput Digitization for Natural History Collections

[Stanley Blum]

Hello TDWG and a special shout-out to TDWG'ers in New Zealand and greater
Oceania,

Please help the BigDig organizing committee reach a worldwide audience with
this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.
RE: BigDig 2017: High Throughput Digitization for Natural History
Collections
DETAILS here: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=
63603&copyownerid=49294

WHAT is it? A one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 13th IEEE
International Conference on eScience (http://escience2017.org.nz/)

WHEN: 24—27 October 2017

WHERE: Auckland, New Zealand

The BigDig workshop will focus on high-throughput digitization, driven by
the keen need to move the world’s physical collections into the digital
realm where they are safer from the ravages of time, can be used by larger
numbers of scientists and the public, and can contribute in new ways to the
study of biodiversity. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Digitization technologies for high-throughput 2D and 3D capture of
collection objects
* Instrumentation strategies and algorithms
* Specimen handling, label information capture, OCR, crowd-sourced label
transcription, 3D reconstruction
* Digitization requirements, metadata, image and 3D fidelity, time and
resource constraints, speed
* Workflows for high-throughput digitization of natural history collections
* Data management for large and perhaps distributed digital collections of
such data
* Interface requirements, issues, and solutions both for scientific
research and for public outreach to extremely large virtual collections
* Applications of the resulting data resource to potentially new science
and approaches as evidenced by theoretical models, case studies, parallels
with existing similar data resources

Thank you for your part in extending the reach of the organizing committee
with this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.

With gratitude and in anticipation,

Debbie Paul, et al on the Program Committee
PS: Since TDWG-SPNHC 2018 is in NZ, this is an opportunity to
cross-advertise both events?
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