BioDigiCon: Final Update
Plans for the Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon 2022) are nearly complete. You can explore the agenda and other conference-related information on the conference wiki page here: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/BioDigiCon_2022 and the presentation abstracts here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qooo7bKfTC8mGXAct2xhjrhg1nWZFHPrtJBJ_n6….
Registration is free! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697
There is an excellent line-up of discussion sessions and workshops, including:
BiotaPhy Webinar 2: Resolving Nomenclature: Making Appropriate Taxonomic Choices
Maria Beatriz de Souza Cortez, University of Florida
BioDigiCon is pleased to provide the platform for the second in a series of 10 webinars sponsored by BiotaPhy<https://www.idigbio.org/content/biotaphy-2022-webinar-series>, a set of computational workflows with broad impact on data-intensive research spanning ecology, phylogenetics, systematics, and conservation biology.
Data quality: most common data dealbreakers
Cat Chapman, iDigBio; Margot Schneider, Atlas of Living Australia; Dora Canhos, CRIA; Andrea Hahn, GBIF; Elspeth Haston, RBGE
Digital Extended Specimen Discussion Session
Libby Ellwood, iDigBio; Katja Seltmann, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Katie Pearson and Ed Gilbert, Symbiota Support Hub
Digitization Coordination: Combining Project Management & Digitization Efforts to Benefit Collections, Big and Small
Jackie Chapman, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Frederik Berger, MfN Berlin; Helen Hardy, NHM London; Sylvia Orli, NMNH Smithsonian; Mareike Petersen, MfN Berlin; Kira Sobers, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Alyson Wilkins, NHMU Utah
Digitization Workflows in Symbiota-based Biodiversity Specimen Data Portals
Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University; Lindsay Walker, Symbiota, ASU
GBIF, ALA, iDigBio: Aligning systems to benefit data mobilization
Federico Mendez (GBIF), Javier Molina (ALA), Maureen Kelly (iDigBio), Chris Wilson (IDigBio)
Imaging Biodiversity Specimens: First Steps to a Great Start (and Beyond)
Austin Mast, Florida State University, Dept of Biological Science; Lauren Cohen, FSU, Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication; Nicole James, FSU, Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication; Alex Adkinson, FSU, Department of Art
Including Indigenous Metadata in Collection Records
Maui Hudson, University of Waikato; Jane Anderson, New York University
Solutions for long-term image storage and accessibility
Dave Blackburn, University of Florida; Doug Boyer, Duke University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Michelle Koo, University of California - Berkeley; Nelson Rios, Yale University; Julie Winchester, Duke University
Sustaining Institutional Digitization of Biodiversity Collections: Considerations and Examples
Austin Mast (iDigBio, FSU), David Jennings (iDigBio), Jenn Yost (Symbiota Support HUB, CalPoly), Lindsay Walker (Symbiota Support HUB, ASU)
Capturing trait data: broad, across different taxonomic groups
Rob Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History; Maggie Hantak, FLMNH; Ed Stanley, FLMNH; Julie Allen, University of Nevada at Reno; Jacob Idec, FLMNH; Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Gil Nelson, PhD
Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
gnelson(a)floridamuseum.ufl.edu
BiotaPhy
Hi everyone,
Do you want to learn how to use occurrence data and available software to address questions in ecology and evolutionary biology but haven’t had a chance to take a course and are overwhelmed by the options for self-teaching? Would you like to incorporate this sort of research into your classes but don’t have time to create the materials and examples? If either of these applies, then join the BiotaPhy Project for an upcoming series of 10 webinars designed to take you from biological question to data acquisition and cleaning to analysis and interpretation! BiotaPhy is a collaboration among iDigBio, the Open Tree of Life, and Lifemapper projects and personnel.
We have converted our popular summer workshop into a webinar series; see below for topics. Webinars will be held Wednesdays at 12:30 pm Eastern time, beginning September 21. All webinars will be recorded and made available, so you won’t get behind if you need to miss a session. The schedule is:
Webinar 0: Terms, Concepts, Data Formats – A Tutorial for Background
Available online at the registration page [coming soon!]
Webinar 1: Introduction: Scope and Research Potential for Multidisciplinary Biodiversity Modeling and Analysis
Date: 09/21/2022
Webinar 2: Resolving Nomenclature: Making Appropriate Taxonomic Choices
Date: 09/28/2022
Webinar 3: Clean Your Dirty Data
Date: 10/05/2022
Webinar 4: Georeferencing with GEOLocate
Date: 10/12/2022
Webinar 5: Big Data Munging (a.k.a Splitting and Merging Occurrence Data by Taxa from Multiple Sources)
Date: 10/19/2022
Webinar 6: Species Distribution Modeling 1
Date: 10/26/2022
Webinar 7: Species Distribution Modeling 2
Date: 11/02/2022
Webinar 8: Introducing Presence-Absence Matrices for Large Scale Analyses
Date: 11/9/2022
Webinar 9: Phylogenetic Diversity: Integrating Phylogenies with Species and Biogeographic Data
Date: 11/16/2022
Webinar 10: Hypothesis Testing and Randomization
Date: 11/30/2022
To register, please go to https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfuCtrDwjE9PnPXJYkiSnglbnNd_BYCS4. Note that you will need to register separately for each week so that we can plan for weekly attendance.
And for more information, visit https://www.idigbio.org/content/biotaphy-2022-webinar-series<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idigb…>
Please share with your networks, and sorry for cross-postings!
Hope to see you soon!
Best,
Pam
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Pamela S. Soltis (she/her/hers)
Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
Distinguished Professor and Curator
Laboratory of Molecular Systematics
and Evolutionary Genetics
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: (352) 273-1964
Fax: (352) 846-2154
Email: psoltis(a)flmnh.ufl.edu<mailto:psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu>
