We are pleased to announce a sampling of the lightning rounds to be offered at BioDigiCon. Remember, registration is free, and all events will be pre-recorded or recorded live for asynchronous viewing to suit your time zone or schedule. Registration is free but required.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697

Lightning Rounds: Up to 30 rounds will be offered. Here is a sampling:

A set of four rounds focusing on comparing popular collections management systems (CMS) for folks deciding which CMS to adopt, determining whether to switch from a custom CMS, adopt a new CMS, or just to learn more of these options. Talks will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A. Included are:

  •  Arctos, with Emily Braker, University of Colorado
  • Emu, with Larry Gall, Yale University
  • Specify, with Randy Singer, University of Michigan 
  • Symbiota, with Katie Pearson, California Polytechnic State University

A set of five rounds focusing on digitization activities at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. 

  • Coordinating digitization at NMNH, Sylvia Orli

  • A completely digitized collection – what does digitization maintenance look like for NMNH botany, Sylvia Orli

  • Digitizing the Odonata, Torsten Dikow

  • Creating an Informatics and Data Science Center, Rebecca Snyder

  • New generation digitization of specimens in situ, Holly Little

 Individual lightning rounds will include:

  • Extending the model for digitized data, Ely Wallis

  • Software-based capture of 2D barcodes on duplicate herbarium sheets during digitization & subsequent data discovery via GBIF, including a sample script to adapt and reuse, David Shorthouse & Shannon Asencio, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Government of Canada

  • Digitization as art, Zach Randall, Florida Museum of Natural History

  • Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), Jorrit Poelen, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration

  • A workflow for cleaning Notes from Nature data transcriptions, Peter Oboyski, Essig Museum

  • Digitizing the CSIRO Collections, Australia, Nicole Fisher, CSIRO

  • An open, continuously updated Fern Tree of Life, Joel Nitta, University of Tokyo

  • 10 minute Q&A with U.S. National Science Foundation representatives, Steve Ellis

  • MorphoBank, Brooke Long-Fox