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3 | Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education: Data Literacy, Workforce Training, and the Extended Specimen | Biodiversity scientists must be fluent across disciplines; possess quantitative, computational, and data skills for working with large, complex datasets; and have foundational skills and content knowledge from ecology, evolution, systematics and environmental science. As scientists and educators, we can embrace the changing landscape of biodiversity science and leverage the foundational skills that collections have fostered for centuries to help engage, inspire, and build the next generation of biodiversity data scientists. Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) is a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network focused on developing strategies and materials to infuse biodiversity data into the core of the undergraduate science curriculum, facilitating broad-scale adoption of biodiversity data literacy competencies, and improving undergraduate biology training to meet increasing workforce demands in data and biodiversity sciences. The BLUE Data Network has four major goals: 1) Cultivate a diverse and inclusive network of biodiversity researchers, data scientists, and biology educators focused on undergraduate data-centric biodiversity education; 2) build community consensus on core biodiversity data literacy competencies; 3) develop strategies and exemplar materials to guide the integration of biodiversity data literacy competencies into introductory undergraduate biology curricula; and 4) extend the network to engage a broader community of undergraduate educators in biodiversity data literacy efforts. We will present on our recent national and international efforts to collaborate across the education, data, and biodiversity science communities; showcase our most recent Open Education Resources; and discuss our on-going efforts to address workforce training needs highlighted in the Extended Specimen and Biological Collections reports from the Biodiversity Collections Network and National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. | Monfils, Anna; Linton, Debra; Ellwood, Libby; and White, Lisa | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Natural History Education DemoCamp | Natural History Collections offer a wealth of resources for educators and learners. To this end, digitization makes specimens, and the data and images associated with them, more accessible to a wide audience. However, educators and learners must know that resources exist, where to get those materials and how to use them. We, as collections professionals, must promote our outreach materials, make them readily available, and provide the background knowledge for accurate and safe use of specimens, data and supporting resources. The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Education Committee formed in 2020 to help develop, support, and promote formal (K-12, Undergraduate and Graduate) and informal education, and outreach relative to natural history collections and biodiversity science as informed by natural history collections. One of the first premiere initiatives, Qubeshub, established as a site to aggregate natural history educational resources, publishes Open Educational Resources, or OER, through the Natural History Education Portal. Anyone can add an OER resource to this portal. Sharing a resource as an OER on QUBESHub means your resource will be assigned a DOI and you will have access to usage metrics. The SPNHC Education Committee also hosted the first ever virtual Natural History Education (NHE) DemoCamp Building upon the previous work of the “Share Fair,” the NHE DemoCamp strives to share, discover, and discuss educational materials that support a framework in natural history. This year’s NHE DemoCamp had over 300 registrants and 21 different live demonstrations that took place over the two days. Educational materials shared varied widely in scope, audience, format, and topic, from how to use R to analyze biodiversity data in the classroom to how to make a compelling outreach video for a general audience. Our poster highlights collections based educational resources and ways to make them accessible to the educational community. | Anna Monfils, Jennifer Bauer, Elizabeth Leith, Molly Phillips, Julia Robinson, Jessa Waters | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | A decade of digitisation to secure, enhance & mobilise CSIRO’s biological research collections. | The CSIRO’s National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) is a world class science ready biological collections research facility. Its 15+ million specimens collected over 240 years include all major biological groups and cover the entire Australian continent and marine zones. In the last decade, we have made significant advances in bringing our collections together, moving from six collection databases to a single integrated collection management system, and addressed digital challenges in genomic research and associated data, specimen digitisation in image capture and crowdsourcing methods of databasing. While we digitally move to secure and mobilise CSIRO’s biological collections, we are also working to further advance digitisation approaches and how that information gets utilised in research and application to real-world problems. Our projects centre around automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate digitisation and utilise new data analytics in the future. This presentation will outline our achievements to date to mobilise, secure & make accessible our digitised collections as well as some of the work we are doing to help create a 21st century biological research collection. | Nicole Fisher and Pete Thrall | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | The Atlas of Living Australia. 10 years supporting Biodiversity Research and Decision Making | This poster provides an overview of activities and major accomplishments of the Atlas Of Living Australia (ALA) over the last 10 years that has supported digitisation of Australia biodiversity records. The ALA is an National Research Infrastructure Collaboration Strategy (NCRIS) Australian Government funded initiative. It is Australia’s most comprehensive source of biodiversity data through partnerships with over 900 data providers including herbariums and museums, government agencies, research and citizen science programs. It currently holds over 100 million occurrence records and supports a wide range of digitisation platforms including DigiVol, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia, iNaturalist Australia and BioCollect. | Atlas of Living Australia: www.ala.org.au Hamish Holewa, Deputy Director ALA Hamish.holewa@csiro.au | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | The iDigBio US Collections List: Now Powered By GBIF | iDigBio publishes a list of US Collections that is intended to be a comprehensive list of natural history collections in the United States of America. This list aims to provide access to information and metadata about natural history collections in the United States, including but not limited to collections descriptions, contact information, taxonomic scope of collections, and links to existing recordsets within iDigBio (if applicable). Previously, this list was maintained as a JSON endpoint via GitHub, with updates maintained manually, requiring substantial human involvement and reliance on third party services (e.g. TravisCI) to publish new collections entries or updates to existing collections metadata. In 2020, the iDigBio US Collections List was successfully merged with GrSciColl, the Registry of Scientific Collections at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GrSciColl and the US Collections List fundamentally share the same goal: enhancing access to information about natural history collections, associated digitized recordsets, and personnel involved with these collections. The US Collections List is now maintained directly on GrSciColl by GBIF and iDigBio staff, and the US Collections List hosted on iDigBio.org is now populated via the GrSciColl Application Programming Interface (API). This merger has resulted in a more streamlined experience for both those maintaining the list and users of the list; changes submitted to US entries on GrSciColl now appear instantaneously on the US Collections List at iDigBio. Engaging the broader community is fundamental for data integrity; GrSciColl has implemented functionality for transparent requests for metadata changes (e.g. change in contact information) from GrSciColl users. These changes are evaluated by GrSciColl maintainers before publishing; approved changes are visible immediately. We hope that this unified global index of natural history collections will continue to enhance access to information about biodiversity collections and the people and data involved. | Caitlin Chapman, Ronald Canepa, Chris Wilson, Nicholas Rejack, Marie Grosjean, Morten Høfft, Marcos Gonzalez, Tim Roberston | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | GRSciColl: Registry of Scientific Collections | GRSciColl, the Registry of Scientific Collections, is a comprehensive, community-curated clearinghouse of collections information originally developed by the Consortium of the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and hosted by the Smithsonian Institution until 2019. It is now hosted and maintained in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) registry. Anyone can use GRSciColl to search for physical collections based on their attributes (country, preservation type, etc.) as well as their codes and identifiers. These users will find information on what the collections contain, where they are located, who manages them and how to get into contact. The current permission model aims to facilitate community curation. Anyone can suggest updates, and those changes can be applied or discarded by the appropriate reviewers: institution editors, country mediators, or administrators. More than half of the GRSciColl are updated during weekly synchronization with Index Herbariorum. More than 1,500 collection records were imported from the Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio). The iDigBio data managers are part of the GRSciColl editing team and review and maintain all U.S. collections in the GBIF registry. The collection information displayed on the iDigBio portal via the GRSciColl Application Programming Interface (API). The collection API also includes a lookup service to find GRSciColl records based on institution and collection codes and identifiers. This lookup service is used to link Specimen-related occurrences published on GBIF.org to GRSciColl entries whenever possible (see this example). This procedure allows aggregation of specimen-related occurrences under their GRSciColl-registered collections and institutions, regardless of the way they were published on GBIF. We hope to make GRSciColl a tool to help the community find each other and work together. | Marie Grosjean, Caitlin Chapman, Morten Høfft Gonzalez, Marcos Lopez, Tim Roberston | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Hosted Portal Pilots Fuel Collaboration and Creativity Across North America | In late 2020, GBIF launched a pilot program to explore simple, customizable biodiversity data portals to lower the technical threshold for GBIF Participant nodes. This joint presentation by several North American Nodes will demonstrate the diversity of the portal concept across regional, national, institutional, and thematic areas. The portals represented in this presentation include GBIF North America, GBIF-US, BioMob, and VertNet. One exciting outcome of the pilot portal program has been the collaboration among nodes to develop a variety of customized portals. Benefits of the hosted portal solution include the use of a common platform, a shared data index maintained by GBIF, and a diversity of user interfaces tailored to specific purposes. | David Jennings, Carole Sinou, Abby Benson, David Bloom, Sharon Grant, James Macklin | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Legume Data Portal | The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) was established in 2010 to facilitate collaboration and to advance knowledge on the taxonomy, phylogenetics and systematics of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae). In 2020, four working groups were established: a taxonomy group focused on establishing a comprehensive species checklist with synonymy, plus groups on phylogenomics, traits and occurrence data. Communicating about and giving access to relevant and curated information about Legumes has been part of the objectives of the LPWG since the beginning. In the late 1980’s, legume systematists developed the International Legume Data Information System (ILDIS). When launched ILDIS was pioneering in biodiversity informatics and rapidly became important and useful. The species list was later used in The Plant List and Catalogue of Life, but the ILDIS taxonomy has not been updated for 20 years and a new legume information system was long overdue. The need for a new portal about Legumes was first discussed in 2018, during a Legume conference in Japan. The hosted portal developed by GBIF is a great opportunity to start to build the portal the community envisioned during that meeting and is described in a paper in 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1071/SB19025). The Legume Data Portal gives access to the latest checklist built by the taxonomy working group, to all occurrence data available on GBIF, as well as information about the different working groups, the Bean Bag (LPWG newsletter) and news from the community. It is currently in a staging state (https://hp-legume.gbif-staging.org/) but will be officially launched this autumn. The LPWG plans to continue implementing new features relevant to the community even after the end of the hosted portal pilot phase. | Carole Sinou, Anne Bruneau, Joe Miller | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Piloting hosted portals in the GBIF network | The GBIF community expressed interest in GBIF developing simple, customizable biodiversity data portals that participants can use to share news updates and create an identity for their work to help build a community of data publishers and users. To meet this need, GBIF developed a pilot program for fully hosted portals focusing on either a single museum, a country, a region or a thematic area, such as a taxonomic group. Each portal shows a specific view of a subset of GBIF-mediated data. For example, the US BISON pilot portal will serve all US data currently mediated through GBIF via our APIs. The portals do not have the advanced functionality of portals developed by large museums or the Living Atlases community, but the program seeks to fill an empty niche for simple, easy to use portals that showcase data shared with GBIF. The portals are hosted by GBIF but managed by the user group who add text, images and branding. The portals have an advanced occurrence data search, similar to that used on GBIF.org, and use the GBIF DOI download system. The first of 17 pilot portals are now coming online. GBIF seeks to learn from this pilot project to determine community interest and how to proceed past the pilot phase. | Mélianie Raymond, Morten Høfft, Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen, Matthew Blissett, Tim Robertson, Joe Miller | GBIF Secretariat | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Digitization and Management of the National Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology Collections: Challenges, Workflows, and Solutions | At approximately 50 million specimens, the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology has one of the largest collections of invertebrates in the world. The department was founded in 1856 to house collections from the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. In a normal year, staff host over 200 visitors and process approximately 600 transactions a year; manage four US Federal Government affiliated agency partnerships; and concurrently operate numerous collection improvement and digitization projects. Recent large projects include inventory of the National Mollusk and Brachyura (crab) collections; curation and reorganization of the US National Parasite Collection; processing of large voucher and genomics collections; digitizing analog station data; uncataloged collections resolution (Backlog Inventory and Exemplar Data Capture); planning for the Dry Mollusk Reorganization and Move; and MSC glass slide reorganization and move. Key challenges include organizing and accounting for all of the resources (knowledge, staff, equipment, time, space, collection supplies, funding) required for the project. It is important to include all of the stakeholders (communication!), maintain flexibility (including remote digitization), and plan carefully and thoroughly. Effective solutions include organization and tailoring of workflows to specific projects with constant reevaluation and documentation to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. | William Moser, Katie Ahlfeld, and Karen Reed Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Digitizing the U.S. National Insect Collection | The Department of Entomology has taken strides to increase digitization of the U.S. National Insect Collection. Currently we maintain 3 separate inventories and utilize different digitization techniques to make our data available to the public and research community. | Jessica Bird, Acting Collections Information Manager, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History; Erin Kolski, Museum Specialist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Making Parasite-Host Associations Visible using Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) | The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Network digitizes and aggregates arthropod parasite collections to build an easily accessible, comprehensive database of parasite-host associations and vector distributions. TPT is working to digitally provide information on parasite collections by providing research-ready data and images from 1.2+ million parasite specimens, which will be accessible to scientists, educators, wildlife managers, and policy makers worldwide. Our network is providing needed baseline information for research and management of the ecological interactions among parasites, pathogens, and their hosts in North America (including the U.S. & territories) through Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) data integration, and data review services. Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) is an open data integration platform that continually indexes existing openly available species interaction datasets, literature, and specimen records using open source software. Since its inception in 2013, GloBI has grown to be the largest registry of biotic interaction claims, indexing over 8 million interaction claims sourced from hundreds of data sources and citing millions of references. For TPT, GloBI is used to keep track of availability of valuable evidence-based parasite-host interaction claims sourced from participating Natural History Collections as well as facilitating in-depth data reviews to help improve, and sometimes align, data exchange protocols (aka, integration profiles). TPT has contributed 500,000 biotic interaction records to GloBI, which will organize, standardize and integrate our records into existing species interaction datasets accessible via web tools and machines. Here, we provide examples of various parasite specimens with label data, demonstrate how biotic association data will be captured in different platforms, and provide a standard glossary of association terms. Over the course of the project, TPT and GloBI will continue to work with data providers to discover biotic interactions in their collections and refine standards specific to their data sharing workflows. | Sullivan K, Poelen JH, Seltmann KC, Zaspel J | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Capturing California’s flowers: Mobilizing phenological data from herbarium specimens | The timing of when plants flower is important to science, society, and biodiversity. Herbarium specimens can provide rich data on how flowering times vary across time and space and with changes in climate. The California Phenology Thematic Collections Network (CAP TCN) is an ADBC-NSF-funded project that aims to image over one million herbarium specimens and capture flowering (i.e., phenological) data from these specimens. To date, we have created over 1.6 million phenological scorings on the 3 million records housed in our data portal, CCH2 (CCH2.org). Our workflows and protocols are well-documented on our website (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org) and we have developed extensive educational and outreach resources—including lab materials, a course-based undergraduate research experience, and a workshop—to promote research using the data. Here, we describe how we capture phenological data using two tools we developed in our data portal to harvest phenological data from specimens, and we show how these data are mobilized using Darwin Core MeasurementOrFact files. Scoring phenology using these tools was fast and easy and could be implemented by other portals. In the next phase of our project, we are developing more robust data standards for efficient data mobilization through a TDWG Task Force, in which we invite all interested stakeholders to participate. | Katie Pearson, Jenn Yost | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Accelerating Global Engagement Through Collaboration of Online Biodiversity Data Networks | Online networks are helping to make global biodiversity data readily available to researchers, educators and policy makers. Networks such as iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections; idigbio.org), GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility; gbif.org), ALA (Atlas of Living Australia; ala.org.au), and DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections; dissco.eu) have fostered innumerable analyses, projects, and publications with the hundreds of millions of biodiversity occurrence records, e.g., natural history specimen records and observational datasets, available via their searchable databases. Currently, each network maintains independent databases, that best serve their respective data users. Collaboration among networks, i.e., into a “Network of Networks”, could facilitate an accelerated pace of data discovery and biodiversity research. Working more closely together would allow for: 1) comprehensive access to all biodiversity data from a single resource, 2) consistent and predictable data interpretation and transformation, 3) stable and persistent references to all data records, 4) unification of perspectives among research communities, and 5) sustainable development and maintenance of tools and services. Progress in all five of these areas maximizes the benefits expected from all biodiversity monitoring, digitization, data mobilization, research, and curation efforts, and supports multitaxa studies that span domains. Here we show some of our collective efforts to streamline access to biodiversity occurrence records in support of research and actions that address today’s biggest threats to biodiversity as well as the importance of data availability for ensuring food security, combatting vector-borne disease, encouraging bio-inspired design, and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning in systematics and ecology. | Elizabeth Ellwood, Gil Nelson, Hamish Holewa, Dimitris Koureas, Joe Miller | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Digitization of specimen records in Canada: how far are we? | Digitization of specimen records hosted in Canadian collections started in 2001, with the deployment of the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF), which led to a first wave of publication of biodiversity data in Canada. With funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, several projects have followed the steps of CBIF, allowing for a better access and understanding of biodiversity in Canada: the Beatty Museum at the University of British Columbia, the Barcode of Life initiative at University of Guelph, and Canadensys led by the Université de Montréal. Canadensys was officially launched in 2008, and was both a web infrastructure and a network of people in 10 Canadian universities representing about 30 collections, equipped with all the necessary tools to start digitizing specimens (cameras, scanner, informatics equipment, databases, minimal funding for salaries). Canadensys has now facilitated the publication of nearly 2.7M specimen records from 35 institutions, and has played an important role in training biodiversity informatics in order to build a network of skilled researchers, professionals and students in the country. For herbaria, for example, a recent overview of the state of digitization revealed that around 33% of specimens in Canadian collections have been digitized to date. In order to accelerate the rate of digitization in Canada, mass digitization projects using automated workflows would be necessary, but none is currently in place. Digitization in herbaria, and in most natural history collections in the country, still relies on manual digitization and volunteers, leading to highly accurate and complete records, but a slow growth rate. Federal collections are currently in a blitz of digitization, supported by funding of the BioMob project, and will be published in a near future. Similar efforts are required for mobilizing data from Canadian university collections to ensure rapid and accurate digitization efforts. | Carole Sinou, Anne Bruneau | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Beyond biodiversity: Digitizing rocks, minerals, and meteorites at NMNH | In addition to bio- and paleontological specimens, many natural history collections also include rocks, minerals, and meteorites used to study the history of Earth and the Solar System. This poster will explore digitization of such specimens in the Department of Mineral Sciences at NMNH. | Adam Mansur, National Museum of Natural History | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
19 | NMNH Paleobiology Department Fossil Data: Volunteering for Better Collection | As 60-70% of the workforce, the volunteers at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology have an enormous impact. The department needed to find solutions to expand our capacity to create accessible, high quality digital collections records to support research. We determined that integration of a volunteer program for collections digitization was necessary. Volunteers create and enhance digital collections records through transcriptions, imaging, data collection, and identifications. Specimen information and digital assets are generated by individual volunteers under the supervision of their volunteer manager. Raw data is then cleaned, analysed and ingested into systems of record by a mix of museum staff and contractors. This system has greatly increased the digitization capacity for the Department of Paleobiology. | Miller, Matthew T.; Little, Holly; Millhouse, Amanda; Telfer, Abby | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | A Decade at a Glance: The Role and Impact of the Collections Program Technicians on NMNH Collections in an Ever-Increasing Digital World | In support of the Smithsonian Institution’s mission for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) established a specialized group of museum technicians under the management of the Associate Director of Collections in 2012. The Collections Program technicians (CPTs) provide core services to all collecting departments at the museum. Some of these services include public outreach, physical collections care and management, and digitization. Over the years, the NMNH has made concerted efforts and investments to support and accelerate digital advances in museum collections and its metadata. As a result, the CPTs have made significant contributions and improvements in efficiency and output of various digitization projects. This poster not only highlights these achievements but also compares them to the overall goals and accomplishments of the NMNH over the past decade. Furthermore, with the impact and growing demand for more accessible collections in a digital world, the NMNH and CPT team have in turn evolved. This poster features the shift in priorities and types of CPT projects over the years and how improved technology, communication, and resources have benefited the museum, despite recent events affecting our nation and the world. | Teresa Hsu, Greg Polley, Alice Fornari, Katie Roberts | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | “Deep Time” of Digitization: History of Biodiversity Digitization at National Museum of Natural History | This poster provides an overview of digitization efforts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) from inception to the present. Join us as we look at the evolution of the museum’s tools and methods, as well as its future goals and aspirations. | Katie Roberts, NMNH Collections Program Kasia Ahern, NMNH Collections Program Jessica Bird, NMNH Entomology David Bridge, Smithsonian Libraries & Archives volunteer Cailin Meyer, NMMH Collections Program Chris Milensky, NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Ducky Nguyen, NMNH Informatics Sylvia Orli, NMNH Botany | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Exploring multiple approaches to engage underrepresented students in research with natural history collections. | Natural history collections contain records of life on earth including unique and rare specimens of extinct species and temporal information on changes in the distributions of native and introduced species. Associated with these collections are personnel that manage and care for these resources and their associated data, and these people serve as both resources and mentors. The collections (objects and data) and the collection personnel are an excellent conduit for introducing and preparing undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds for a myriad of careers in STEAM while equipping them with 21st century skills to successfully matriculate as the next STEAM workforce. Programs designed to serve underrepresented students exist on a continuum of how many people you can reach versus how deeply you can support everyone. Increasing reach is often to the detriment of impact and vice versa. Building from the undergraduate Introduction to Natural History Collections course model created by Flemming et al., the iDigBio team has leveraged natural history collections in a 3-pronged approach designed to engage undergraduates from underrepresented groups in collections-based research at multiple levels and create synergy within our institution around the common goal of broadening representation in the biological sciences. The three programs include a two-day biological career conference and fair created in collaboration with the University of Florida TRIO programs (large reach, shallow impact), a semester-long introduction to natural history collections course (intermediate reach, higher impact), and a paid, collections-based research summer internship program (limited reach, highest impact). Each program has been created to function independently, but also work synergistically for students that participate in multiple activities. During this session we will elaborate on the benefits and drawbacks for each program and explain how these programs can be adopted at other institutions to leverage natural history collections to help provide undergraduate students with necessary research experience. | David Blackburn, Alnycea Blackwell, Adania Flemming, Jeanette Pirlo, and Molly Phillips (Florida Museum, University of Florida) | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | BCEENET: Connecting digitized natural history collections with undergraduate research experiences | Biological Collections in Ecology and Evolution Network (BCEENET) brings together undergraduate educators, natural history collections professionals, researchers, and data experts to support the development and implementation of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) using digitized natural history collections. CUREs increase the number of undergraduate research opportunities, expand access to more students, and provide the same benefits to students as traditional research experiences, with many of the greatest gains in minority and first-generation college student populations. Collaborating with BCEENET can connect you and your collections to a vibrant research and education community, and increase use of your digital data through undergraduate research. | Janice L. Krumm, Carly N. Jordan, Cecily D. Bronson, Elizabeth K. Shea, Jean L. Woods Widener University, Chester, PA, The George Washington University, Washington DC, Portland State University, Portland, OR, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington, DE | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Smithsonian’s 3D Digitization Pipeline: Management, Automation, and Delivery | The Smithsonian has the ambitious goal of high-throughput 3D digitization of collection objects. The challenge of realizing this goal goes well beyond just the act of scanning itself. The meat of the problem rests in creating the enterprise systems that support the management, processing, and publication of 3D data created during scanning activities. The Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office, part of the Office of the Chief Information Officer, has been working to tackle this sprawling, complex infrastructure requirement, developing a suite of open source tools that can be deployed by any organization to support their 3D digitization activities. This presentation will cover the fruit of those efforts to date which includes Voyager, our content authoring and 3D scene publication platform; Cook, our automated framework for data processing; and Packrat, our system for managing 3D data, workflows, and 3D asset publication. | Jon Blundell | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Symbiota: Managing and Mobilizing Biodiversity Data and Supporting Data Providers | The history of Symbiota spans nearly two decades of development and bio-collaboration. Initially designed as a simple online search engine featuring a handful of Arizona-based herbaria, Symbiota has since matured into a distributed network of theme-based research portals incorporating data from over 1,800 collections. More than 40 portals publish over 9 million images and 70 million occurrences, 12 million of which are published to the global data aggregator GBIF. Symbiota is the primary collection management system for over 700 collections, and Symbiota portals are actively used by over 3,000 registered users and countless more researchers, educators, and other members of the public. Through many collaborative efforts, the software developed into both a robust content management system (CMS) and a tool for biodiversity data exploration. As a CMS, Symbiota is specifically designed toward efficient, collaborative digitization with features including data entry from label images, data harvesting from specimen duplicates, batch georeferencing (even across collections), data validation and cleaning, generating progress reports, and additional tools. As a data exploration tool, Symbiota includes species inventories, interactive identification keys, integrated specimen and field images, taxonomic information, species distribution maps, and taxonomic descriptions. Symbiota has achieved such success because it fills a particular niche in the global biodiversity data network; Symbiota portals serve as low- to mid-level aggregators that can help cultivate communities of practice—often focused taxonomically, geographically, or both—that jointly improve data quality and promote data use. These communities also benefit from collaborative digitization and active data management enabled by Symbiota tools. Symbiota is open source, accessible, and is committed to maximum data interoperability by aligning with Darwin Core standards and enabling efficient data import and export. iDigBio 3, funded for the period of 2021-2026, newly includes the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) as an integrated domain and service team to strengthen Symbiota portal user, manager, and software developer communities. Our mission includes help desk support for portal needs, scalable development, user training, and promotion of greater data sharing, such as publishing to global aggregators. The SSH launch will focus on developing and promoting community-supported, structured, and interactive documentation and training for Symbiota users. For more information or if you have questions, email us at symbiota@asu.edu. | Edward Gilbert1, Nico Franz1, Jenn Yost2, Katie Pearson1,2, Laura Rocha Prado1, Samanta Orellana1 1 Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona 2 Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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