This page contains links to materials from completed iDigBio workshops, conferences, and symposia. Codified documentation will reside on the iDigBio Documentation page. Other materials may be displayed via Wikis or external publications, listed below.
Proposals for workshops, conferences or symposia can be submitted here.
05/25/2019 - 05/31/2019 Collecting Measures of Success Biocollections and collections data facilitate many important activities including research, curation, education, outreach, and policy-development. While the value of collection objects and related data seems obvious for those using them, it is often difficult to gather metrics needed to convey and communicate collections-related activities and their importance. Choosing appropriate, consistent and meaningful metrics, efficiently harvesting values, and being able to visualize success (or issues) in appropriate ways, is challenging and often changing with technological advancements and public perceptions. In this symposium, speakers will share stories and strategies, of metrics readily available, in development, and only just dreamt about. We also plan to encourage those attending to share their metrics stories.
03/09/2019 - 03/12/2019 The Digital Future of Entomology - Symposium and Panel at Eastern EntSoc 2019 In this symposium and panel session titled: The Digital Future of Entomology, speakers and panelists seek to share lessons learned, and current trends from digitizing insect collections. Speakers' topics range from historical data uses, fossil amber data, enhanced data dissemination and discovery, automated (deep learning) insect identification using wing images, digitization lessons learned, and worldwide efforts to mobilize collections data and data use.
02/04/2019 - 02/05/2019 DigIn Marine Invertebrate Digitization Workshop In this 2 day workshop, collection personnel from all major and most medium-sized IZ collections in the US and abroad, will share information about their collections and curatorial and digitization workflows. Participants will discuss best practices and consider ways to improve on existing methods to improve efficiency and speed of data mobilization for marine invert collections. Workshop short name #DigIn.
02/01/2019 - 02/02/2019 iDigTRiO Biological Sciences Career Conference & Fair iDigBio and the Office of Academic Support (OAS) and Student Support Services (SSS)/TRIO Program at University of Florida (UF) co-organized a free Biology Career Conference and Fair on February 1-2, 2019 for undergraduate students.
10/01/2018 - 10/03/2018 ADBC Summit 2018 Join the leading researchers and professionals striving to digitize our nation's Natural History Collections! The annual ADBC Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, PENs, NSF, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit inspires collaboration and focuses discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities.
09/21/2018 Digitizing and Mobilizing Research Station Collections Data at OBFS 2018 The amount of digital specimen data available to field stations has grown exponentially, and the number of digitized specimens collected in a field station's geographic region but held in museum and academic collections elsewhere, often at great distances from the station, are providing a wealth of easily accessible information and opportunities for discovery. This concurrent session at the OBFS 2018 annual meeting will offer an introduction to the status and availability of digital data and the national digitization effort, followed by a hands-on demonstration of how to search for and potentially use these data in field station research and activities.
08/30/2018 - 8/30/2018 Symposium Challenges Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience Much data quality (DQ) feedback is now available to data providers from aggregators of collections specimen and related data. Similarly, transcription centres and crowdsourcing platforms also provide data that must be assessed and often manipulated before uploading to a local database and subsequently published with aggregators. Sharing DQ integration experiences can help reveal risks and opportunities. Discovering others have the same conundrums helps develop a community of belonging and may assist in removing duplication of effort. It is important to leverage the knowledge and experience of those who are currently validating data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process. Documenting and classifying these challenges also facilitates motivation and community building by informing those who would tackle these challenges. In this case, talks from aggregators and data providers give all of us a chance to learn from their stories about implementing and integrating DQ feedback.
08/30/2018- 8/30/2018 SPNHC 2018 Educational Materials Share Fair The Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education Network (BLUE), Ecological Society of America (ESA), and iDigBio are co-sponsoring a new session at the 2018 SPNHC/TDWG meeting entitled the Educational Materials Share Fair to be held on Thursday, August 30, 2018, from 11:00-12:30 NZST in Castle D (40). This is an opportunity for colleagues to share and get feedback on education or outreach materials. Materials can be at any stage of development from fledgling ideas to fully vetted materials. All are welcome to either share as developers or participate as potential adopters.
08/29/2018- 8/29/2018 Symposium: Completing the Data Pipeline: Collections Data Use in Research, Education and Outreach The purpose of this symposium is to highlight the diverse uses of digital collections resources for research, education, and outreach including activities that are currently underway around the globe with special focus on using collections data for: innovative research applications, inspiring outreach initiatives intended for new audiences, and educational resources and programs that are ensuring a new generation of competent collections data users. We anticipate this to be a full day event with up to 20 speakers. We will invite selected speakers to submit abstracts and depend on abstract submissions through the SPNHC abstract submission process.
08/25/2018- 9/02/2018 SPNHC - TDWG 2018 Joint Mtg Announcement iDigBio will be participating in the first ever joint meeting of SPNHC and TDWG. Details forthcoming.
07/22/2018 Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Application for Ecology, Phylogentics, and Biogeography In this full-day workshop, we will provide hands-on instruction for novices and advanced users alike. In addition to learning how to use various software packages, we will also discuss the assumptions of the analyses and the interpretations of the results. We will divide into groups based on participants' experience, so novices and advanced users are all welcome. For beginners, we will cover ways to access and download digitized herbarium data (from GBIF, iDigBio, and other aggregators) and prepare data sets for analysis. We will then offer a series of modules on using georeferencing software (GEOLocate) and applying Maxent software to construct ecological niche models and do paleoclimatic modeling. For advanced users, we will provide new, innovative modules for linking specimen data to phylogenetic trees, computing phylogenetic diversity measures, conducting biogeographic analyses, and more. We will cover strategies to extract information from niche models, such as species occupancy in ecological space and niche breadth, and link them to phylogenetic trees to test hypotheses about niche evolution, such as ancestral niche reconstruction. Participants will use new integrative software tools developed by the BiotaPhy Project (www.biotaphy.org) in collaboration with the Lifemapper Project that link occurrence data (through iDigBio), niche models, and ecological statistics calculated from the models, applying these to large trees in a desktop geospatial environment using the QGIS GIS application.
07/09/2018 - 07/11/2018 Drawers, Jars and Databases: Teaching the Hidden Science of Natural History Museums A teacher workshop hosted by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, iDigBio, and the MicroFungi project about using collections in the classroom. Will take place at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences with excursions to Prairie Ridge Ecostation and North Carolina State University July9-11, 2018.
06/4/2018- 06/6/2018 Digital Data Conference: Emerging Innovations for Biodiversity Data The Berkeley Natural History Museums, the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, and iDigBio are pleased to announce the second annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Berkeley, CA, 4-6 June 2018. The 2018 conference will again encompass the uses of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for "big data" analytics in organismal biology.
05/30/2018 - 06/01/2018 Developing an ontology for insect natural history data At this three-day workshop, we took the first steps toward developing a robust ontology for insect natural history data and natural history observations. We primarily focused on information from insect specimen labels, but we also recognized considerable overlap in content between insect natural history data from labels and insect natural history data from literature sources, which means that much of our work will be easily adaptable to literature-sourced data.
04/06/2018 - 04/07/2018 Broadening Participation in the Biological Sciences: Los Angeles The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is hosting a Broadening Diversity workshop on April 6-7, 2018. This workshop is part of a western US workshop series with a goal to introduce undergraduate students, especially underrepresented populations, to museum and biodiversity science careers.
04/2018 Announcement - Collaborating on Archaeological Collections Care iDigBio will be presenting and participating in an upcoming session at the Society for American Archaeology. Session abstract organized by Roger Colten and S. Terry Childs: Archaeology shares collection management, preservation, analysis, and data retrieval issues with many scientific and cultural disciplines. Accessing the knowledge and expertise of colleagues in the natural history, museum, and other related professions can improve archaeological collections management and further scientific research. In this session, we seek to encourage collaboration with colleagues in a variety of professional organizations, such as the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Society of American Archivists, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Society for Historical Archaeology, American Cultural Resources Association, and others. The goal is to learn from and then adopt or adapt some of their best practices for the benefit of archaeological collections. Data management and data sharing, conservation and preservation, and sustainable management of collections are among the topics covered by session participants.
In this 2-day workshop, iDigBio is supporting UK efforts to foster across-region collaboration and discussions for development of a strategic plan and vision to digitize regional and small collections across the UK. Day 1 attendees are museum leaders and directors. We will share case studies of collaborative digitization and data mobilization and offer examples from potential key stakeholders while highlighting audience benefits. Topics include: the UK science / nature agenda, citizen science, workforce skills and diversity, the power of storytelling, funding models, and institutional benefits mapping. For day 2, attendees will be staff caring for small and regional collections, essentially, non-national museum curators. The focus shifts to ideas, models, and training for incorporating digitization at this level but to key in on practical recommendations that do not require additional budget or expertise if possible. Practical training may be offered in one or two key areas, for example, georeferencing and review of recommendations based on the Five Task Clusters paper (Nelson, et al 2012). Future plans include repeating this second day for other regional (non-national museum) UK curators.
05/03/2018-06/03/2018 ICEDIG To support and collaborate with DiSSCo, iDigBio heads to Helsinki to participate in and share our experience with the leaders and institutional members of the upcoming DiSSCo initiative in the EU. The purpose of this 2-day meeting is to envision the human and cyberinfrastructure needs to realize DiSSCo.
13/02/2018-14/02/2018 Citation - Attribution Workshop - convened by BCoN iDigBio will be participating in a workshop to discuss the current citation / attribution standards and practices when referencing museum collections and specimens. This meeting convened by BCoN looks to make recommendations and initiate collaborations that support changes in community norms and publishing practices resulting in more automated and robust scientific collections citations and attributions.
11/5/2017 - 11/8/2017 Entomology Society of America (ESA) 2017 Entomology 2017 will be held November 5-8, 2017 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The theme "Ignite. Inspire. Innovate." highlights a vision to increase science communication within the research community. iDigBio will be leading a symposium: Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science. Pamela Soltis, iDigBio's Research PI will present a talk: "Using specimens and linked data in ecological and evolutionary research" in this symposium. The lineup of talks includes speakers from the US, South America, and the EU and several graduate students will be presenting their research.
11/1/2017 - 11/3/2017 ADBC Summit VII announcement iDigBio hosts the 7th joint meeting of the ADBC Community working together to advance access to collections data and expand use of collections data in scientific research. ADBC Summit VII will be held November 2-3, 2017 at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) in Gainesville, Florida.
10/1/2017 - 10/6/2017 TDWG 2017 Annual Conference iDigBio will be participating in numerous symposiums, workshops, talks and posters at TDWG 2017 in Ottawa, Canada.
The annual TDWG conference serves two purposes:it is is a forum for extending, refining, and developing standards in response to new challenges and opportunities and it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics - much of which relies on the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations.
09/24/2017 - 09/25/2017 GBIF24 announcement iDigBio will be at the table for the 24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This includes the GBIF Nodes Meeting 24-25 September, and the GBIF Governing Board Meeting 26-27 October. The meeting is in Helsinki, Finland and you can read more about the conference events here and here and also look at the complete programme.
8/05/2017 Field-to-collections BioBlitz announcement iDigBio continues efforts to engage the ecological community in using biocollections data. Calling all ecologists! Portland's Forest Park is the largest urban forest in the United States and home to the unique flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest, yet our understanding of its biodiversity, especially in disturbed areas, is incomplete. Join iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) as we seek to fill this knowledge gap. To do this, we'll be collecting voucher specimens and their data along with observational records and getting your input, as ecologists, on what information is critical to capture to make this data fruitful for your research.
7/17/2017 - 7/20/2017 Entomological Collections Management Workshop II The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and the Field Museum (FM) are hosting the 2017 Entomological Collections Management Workshop sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network (ECN), the SysEB Section for ESA, and the Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC). That's a Monday through Thursday with one of those days in Chicago to visit the Field Museum and at least a day devoted entirely to digitization of entomological collections. iDigBio staff collaborated with ECN staff to add the digitization component and will attend to present relevant material.
7/16/2017 - 7/17/2017 Digitizing the 2nd largest Invertebrate Phylum: Mollusks This proposed taxon-focused digitization workshop will assemble a solid data foundation on the current status of US mollusk collections digitization, develop advancement strategies for rapidly promoting digitization and mobilization of North American molluscan specimen data, and provide georeferencing training covering key issues in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine localities, with special relevance to the phylum. The research use of digitized mollusk data and various applications by other stakeholder forms a prominent component of this workshop. The workshop is aligned with the Annual Meeting of the American Malacological Society in July 2017 hosted by the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, DE.
6/29/2017 - 6/30/2017 Data Carpentry at FSU A two-day workshop at FSU covering better spreadsheet skills, introduction to Open Refine, the scripting-language R, and Structured Query Language (SQL). The majority of the participants are from the FSU Biological Sciences Department. This is the first in a on-going series as we strive to integrate Data Carpentry into FSU's efforts to offer students, staff, and faculty opportunities to increase their biodiversity data literacy, informatics skills, and data literacy. Focus is on empowering participants to use biodiversity collections data.
6/21/2017 Advances in Digitization: see events at SPNHC 2017 Advances in Digitization, offers talks showcasing current trends and recent developments in the world of collections digitization. We'll hear about new strategies for scaling up and improved data quality, and get input from the herbaria, fish, and paleo collections. We'll delve into the realm of 3-D imaging, citizen science, and research librarians as collaborators. Four posters offered in this section cover digitization efficiency and crowdsourcing ideas from insect collections, to paleo. We welcome our international participants from KEW, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the MNHN.
6/21/2017 Innovative Uses for Collections Data: see events at SPNHC 2017 Many collections now have more complete species inventories, and many have more digitized collections. What can be done with this data in house,to help the collections themselves? How does the aggregation of this data help collections more effectively advocate for themselves? How can it be used to for strategic planning? for advertisement? for seeking funding and setting policies? What can researchers and collections managers tell us about their georeferencing needs? From the biological field station to collections with specimens in the millions, find out what collections are learning about their own holdings - and the potential in that information.
6/18/2017 SPNHC 2017 Biodiversity Informatics 101: see events at SPNHC 2017 The short course will provide an introduction to natural history biodiversity informatics. The course is designed for museum professionals that would like a better understanding of the natural history informatics landscape or the resources available for digitizing and digitally sharing natural history collections data. Topics will cover the basics of natural history collection data and digital object lifecycle management, including digitally archiving and mobilizing collections data and participation in global initiatives. The course will be led by museum and informatics professionals with experience in natural history collections digitization and informatics.
06/5/2017- 06/6/2017 Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference iDigBio, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, and the University of Michigan Herbarium are pleased to announce the inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Ann Arbor, MI, 5-6 June 2017. The rapid mobilization of digitized biodiversity data, led largely in the United States by the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, has resulted in a substantial increase in available data for research and related activities. This conference will encompass the uses of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for "big data" analytics in organismal biology.
5/2/2017 - 5/3/2017 Digital Photography 101: ManagingCameras, Lighting, and Copy Stands for Specimen Imaging Topics will include digital camera and lens morphology, manual camera operation, customizing settings for specific purposes, sensor types, image file selection, lens types and usage, lighting and white balance, camera copy stands, light boxes, and imaging workflows for imaging various types of organisms and preservation types. This is a basic course in digital photography for specimen imaging.
3/27/2017 - 3/28/2017 Digital Data in Paleontological Research The workshop will focus on tools, strategies, pipelines, and workflows for generating and using digitized data for paleontological research and other activities.
12/05/2016 - 12/06/2016 Incorporating K-12 Outreach Into Digitized Collections Programs This workshop will provide an opportunity for experts in both collections and K-12 education to interact, share knowledge, discuss challenges and issues, and ultimately collaborate on a best practices document that can be shared with the greater collections community.
11/09/2016 Collection Imaging Techniques at the Florida Museum of Natural History An in-house workshop on techniques for imaging collection items at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) organized by staff of iDigBio and the FLMNH.
11/01/2016 - 11/03/2016 iDigBio Summit VI The annual iDigBio Summit is a meeting of representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and other activities related to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit focuses on discussions of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and collaboration. More details and information will be disseminated as we develop the agenda..
10/04/2016 - 10/07/2016 Georeferencing for Research Use, a short course Our focus in this short course is on research use of georeferenced natural history collections data. We will include activities and discussions about best practices and tools for georeferencing, capturing locality data in the field, and using georeferenced specimen locality data in research. Attendees must have a basic level of experience with georeferencing techniques and tools - and be actively involved in research or supporting researchers. iDIgBio and CCBER are sponsoring this event, and NCEAS is our event host.
09/25/2016 - 09/30/2016 ICE 2016 XXV International Congress of Entomology Symposium In Data without Borders: Collecting, Digitizing, Using, and Re-using Biological Specimen Data, we feature talks about collecting museum specimens and digitizing the specimen data to support biodiversity research. Scientists show us how they are using biological specimen data in their research and we include presentations on career skills needed for 21st century digital collections and collaborative research.
09/21/2016 - 09/25/2016 Organization for Biological Field Stations Annual Meeting iDigBio held an afternoon workshop entitled "Mobilizing Biodiversity Data through Field Station Digitization" and follow up discussion session at the 50th annual meeting of the Organization for Biological Field Stations, held at the Sitka Science Center in Sitka, Alaska.
08/13/2016 TORCH IX iDigBio was invited by TORCH (Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria) to attend the TORCH IX meeting to discuss and motivate their data mobilization.
08/07/2016 - 08/12/2016 Symposium at ESA 2016 Annual Meeting At ESA 2016, on Wednesday 10 August, iDigBio presents a symposium bringing together speakers who have incorporated biological specimen data into their ecological research. Specimen collections include centuries of information from around the world and, as a result, comprise data collected in a wide range of formats, languages, media, accuracy, precision, and completeness. Using these data therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates international standards and protocols. Further, these efforts must be forward thinking to anticipate the needs of future researchers and the capabilities of future technologies. The opportunities and challenges in working with these data are numerous and widely applicable across ecological fields. The session will include talks that span taxa, time and geographies, with an emphasis on data from iDigBio.
07/22/2016 Island Biology 2016: mobilizing natural history collections data for research use iDigBio, in collaboration with the University of the Azores, is hosting a mini workshop at the Island Biology 2016 meeting in July 2016, titled Digitized natural history collections: research uses for understanding island biodiversity, biogeography, and communities. Changes in digital technology have made it possible to collect, use, re-use, and share natural history collections and environmental data more easily. Researchers now have access to ever larger data sets for visualization, analysis, and modeling. In our workshop, we present a broad array of examples of the latest developments in island biodiversity research using specimen data from terrestrial and surrounding oceans habitats, including genomics, habitat assessment, phenology, biogeography, and taxonomic revisions. We present current trends in collecting and vouchering of specimens and field data, methods and tools for efficient digitization and mobilization of the specimen data, and tools and skills needed for visualizing the data. We then highlight how the data are being used, especially for research that expands our understanding and conservation of island biodiversity and our environment.
07/11/2016 iDigBio/JMIH Workshop This workshop took place after the 2016 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in New Orleans, LA. This workshop was designed as a product oriented workshop to address collection best practices in ichthyology and herpetology.
as part of the One Collection: pathways to integration The future of biological collections lies in greater integration and cooperation to develop as a global Research Infrastructure (RI), with common practices, policy and systems. Achieving this requires mechanisms that enable us to draw on successful workflows, technologies and processes, and develop fair and efficient business models that ensure long-term sustainability of infrastructure. Building on the work of ADBC programme and coordinating groups like iDigBio, alongside the work of organisations and projects such as CETAF, GBIF, TDWG, NSCA and SYNTHESYS, this session will bring together key stakeholders to coordinate actions relevant to the development of a global RI on bio-collections.
At European level, the European Strategic Framework for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) sets the top-level priorities for developing robust and sustainable RIs. Inclusion of bio-collections in the ESFRI roadmap would place bio-collections at the heart of the European RIs, enhancing physical and virtual access to collections, promoting large scale international collaborations and opening up new opportunities for attracting funding from both national and regional public and private sources.
as part of the One Collection: pathways to integration (Symposium from GBIF Task Force on Accelerating Dicsovery of Biocollections Data): Who are the future users of the digital network and how do we develop common priorities to service these needs? From a purely economic standpoint, the simplest and cheapest way to prioritize digitization is to use the A-Z approach, that is, start from one end of a collection moving sequentially to the last end. With this approach there is little trouble tracking or skipping, it is neutral and can be easily industrialised by using conveyer belt systems. However, in the majority of situations, resources are scarce, sizes and the different kinds of collections are overwhelming, research is ongoing, urgent and important questions need to be answered hence the need to set digitization priorities based for example on taxonomy, geography, habitats, research needs, preservation methods, societal needs, and so on. Priorities may be set at the individual, institutional, local, regional, national or international levels, and furthermore they need not be uniform so long as they are fit for purpose. Strategic prioritization is essential in order to make the biggest impact on biodiversity science, policy, decisions, take advantage of funding opportunities, and leverage the best partnerships. Despite the concerted efforts and the deployment of significant resources in the last decade, it is estimated that only about 10% of the world's c. 3 billion natural history collection specimens (NHCs) have been digitised with most of the efforts concentrated in North America and Western Europe. Furthermore, only some of the digitised collections are fully mobilised in terms of being findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Past, current and planned digitisation projects that did not follow the A-Z approach and were not just opportunistic had to prioritise what they digitise and can provide important lessons to the biocollections community. This symposium aims to provide a roadmap for setting digitisation priorities.
as part of the One Collection: pathways to integration Digital technologies are having a profound influence on how we manage, access and use our collections. These services have the potential to generate efficiencies that will transform traditional collection management and create opportunities to integrate our activities across and beyond institutional boundaries. In this session we invite speakers to present on the systems and technologies that will be required to develop a common digitisation infrastructure across collections-based institutions. Key topics include: Data mobilisation, data aggregators & data portals, next generation collection management systems, models & data services, and data consensus.
as part of the One Collection: pathways to integration So many abstracts were submitted (27) for the first symposium in this series, we added another symposium! This series of talks will delve into new imaging techniques, new ideas for expanding existing digitization and datasets, and expand our knowledge of collections data-in-action.
Small Collections Symposium: Blending the educational resources of small and large collections for training the next generation of museum professionals. Theme: We invite presentations from small and large institutions on current museum-based educational and workforce training initiatives, the development and sharing of novel educational or training modules and resources, graduate and undergraduate internships and courses focused on experiential learning in collections management and curation, and future directions for natural history museum workforce development focused on students and early career professionals.
Rationale: Recent national and global digitization initiatives have led to a resurgence of interest in natural history collections (NHCs), the data they contain, and the potential to use NHC data to address large scale questions related to climate change, invasive species, and anthropogenic disturbance. This influx of energy into NHCs, emerging databases, emphasis on big data and data literacy, and the changing skill sets required to manage NHCs begs to examine the training of the next generation of scientists. The Implementation Plan for the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (USA) pointed to two emerging goals for the collections community that relate directly to education: 1) enhancing the training of existing collections staff and create the next generation of biodiversity information managers, and 2) infusing specimen-based learning and exploration into formal and informal science education. With the publication of Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology: A Call to Action, there has been a renewed interest in creating authentic research experiences. The next generation of college graduates needs to be competent in communication and collaboration, have quantitative competency, and the ability to understand and interpret data. The future workforce of biologists must be comfortable working with large databases. Specimens and data from NHCs can serve a unique role in workforce training as NHC specimens are uniquely qualified to teach about the iterative process of science, data literacy, quantitative biology, and biodiversity informatics.
as part of the One Collection: pathways to integration Natural History Collection (NHC) data are being mobilized all over the world. Recent preliminary worldwide survey data suggests the trend is growing. As digitization begins to become an every-day part of collections, many compelling issues vie for attention. For example, cost, prioritization, sustainability, and rates of digitization are four such issues. And, many uses for NHC data are well-known and fairly well-understood. But issues exist with the data, and there is still much legacy data to be digitally captured – before it can be shared with the world's researchers. We envision an assortment of talks covering three areas: digitization (including imaging) lessons learned, new and emerging technologies/models, and collections data-in-action.
the necessary human resources, hardware and software infrastructure for global creation of and access to this much-needed data.
04/06/2016 Vertebrate Digitization Workshop Two iDigBio, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and the Integrated Biology Graduate Student Association (IBGSA) is offering a second vertebrate digitization workshop, to be held in Berkeley, CA, April 4-6, 2016 (3 & 7 are travel days).
This workshop will focus heavily on imaging vertebrate collections, with an emphasis on 2D imaging. Imaging topics will include but not be limited to selecting and setting up 2D imaging stations, lighting systems, 2D imaging techniques, imaging on a budget, strategies for imaging dry-preserved and fluid-preserved specimens, consideration of image storage requirements, imaging ledgers and catalogs, imaging microscopic slides, mining images for character traits, issues of scale in imaging large and small specimens, workflows, image processing, and evaluating what to image, including consideration of standard views.
Data issues addressed will include the importance of data standards, including Darwin Core and Audubon Core, publishing data to the web via aggregators, including iDigBio, and consideration of core specimen data to be preserved.
03/16/2016 Overcoming Challenges for Imaging Fluid-preserved Vertebrates This is an invited, product-oriented workshop focused on strategies for digitizing fluid-preserved vertebrate specimens. Recommended practices and next steps will be major outcomes.
03/13/2016 Coding Phenological Data from Herbarium Sheets Workshop This is an invited two-day workshop to produce standards and protocols for coding phonological data from plant specimen images and specimens.
02/03/2016 Mini-workshop at Scripps Institute of Oceanography A one-day workshop customized to the SIO personnel.
12/02/2015 - 12/03/2015 Using Biodiversity Specimen-Based Data to Study Global Change iDigBio will host a workshop on using specimen-based data to study global change, including climate change, landscape modification, and invasive species. The workshop will examine the use of digitized data to address key questions while also addressing the issue of incomplete (spotty) geographic and taxonomic data.
11/04/2015 - 11/06/2015 iDigBio Summit V The Summit is a meeting of representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and other activities related to the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit will focus on discussions of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and collaboration.
10/02/2015 - 10/03/2015 Broadening Participation in the Biological Sciences: Careers and Graduate Study in Biology Focused on broadening undergraduate participation in the biological sciences. Career shadowing opportunity for undergraduate students focusing on career and graduate study opportunities in biology, biodiversity, ecology, museum studies, and evolution.
Data Carpentry, Crowd Transcription and …your data mobilization models.
This symposium with demos focuses broadly on models for biodiversity data mobilization. Learn about models you can use to image your specimens and capture the data.... in ways that align with biodiversity data standards and established protocols. What models are out there now that faciliate digitization of natural history collections data and data use? Where do we find these models? Do they incorporate outreach and collaboration? How do these models give researchers faster access to more and better, more fit-for-use data? Do researchers, custodians of biodiversity data, and citizen scientists have the skills needed to create, use, and re-use the data?
09/15/2015 - 09/17/2015 Managing Natural History Collections Data for Global Discoverability. What are the current and best data management practices for collections? This three-day workshop is co-sponsored by Arizona State University (ASU) and iDigBio and hosted by ASU. It offers hands-on training and focuses on data management skills needed for taking care of the digital collection in a natural history museum. What are best practices for getting field data into databases? How do you encourage and support born-digital data? Is your data formatted with up-to-date data quality standards in mind from start to use / re-use?
09/16/2015 Organization of Biological Field Stations Annual Meeting and Field Station Digitization Workshop Strategies for digitizing and mobilizing data from these important biodiversity treasures (including data transcription and imaging) and encouraging data use by a broad range of biologists and ecologists. Emphasis will be on workflows, specimen imaging, and free, easy-to-use database systems that provide for data mobilization without the support of IT staff.
08/09/2015 - 08/14/2015 Ignite Session: Enhancing Ecological Research with iDigBio Specimen Data at Ecological Society of America 2015 Conference iDigBio is the national resource for digitized information about existing, vouchered natural history collections. We will explore the benefits to ecologists in using specimen data that span centuries, continents and taxa. The tools and resources to work with these data are widely available and will be explored in this session.
The abundance of digitized museum specimen records and observational occurrence data provides a fantastic resource for ecological niche modeling. However, navigating the many available methods can be bewildering. In this full-day workshop, we will provide hands-on instruction on ways to access and download these data (from GBIF, iDigBio, and other aggregators), prepare them for analysis, and apply Maxent software to construct ecological niche models. We will discuss the assumptions of the analyses and the interpretations of the results. The workshop is designed to introduce the concepts and practice of ecological niche modeling, so no experience is needed. However, we will explore advanced topics as requested.
06/15/2015 - 06/17/2015 3D Digitization of Fossils for Educators & Citizen Scientists The 3D Digitization of Fossils for Educators & Citizen Scientists Workshop will bring together scientists, collection professionals, and K-12 educators to discuss using 3D imaging and citizen science in the classroom. The workshop will consist of presentations, breakout discussion sessions, collection tours, and a field trip to Thomas Farm.
06/12/2015 American Society of Mammalogists (ASM)/iDigBio Collections Digitization and Imaging Workshop With the help of iDigBio, the goal of this workshop is to offer a template for those interested in sharing their mammalogy collections with the global scientific community. Although the digitization of museum collection data has been an effort underway in the mammal community for quite sometime, there still remain many mammal collections unavailable to the rest of the scientific world, especially those at smaller institutions without the infrastructure or support to undergo such efforts. However, through the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a national effort is underway to make these collections, among others, available to the greater research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.
06/03/2015 - 06/05/2015 Hackathon on iDigBio APIs/Services and Interoperability iDigBio has ingested more than 25 million specimens and 4 million media objects from biodiversity collections with world-wide range. This great resource of biodiversity information has been made accessible not only through the iDigBio portal, but also through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that applications written in any programming language can consume since 2013 to (a) access specimens, media, media metadata, datasets and publishers information, (b) perform searches, and (c) ingest media and its metadata. Currently, this great resource is mainly used by the iDigBio portal and iDigBio developed applications. The goals of this hackathon are to: lower the entrance barrier to potential direct uses of the API by disseminating more broadly its capabilities and generating a body of use-case examples that can be reused by others, identify new opportunities for integration with other cyberinfrastructures, and develop collaborative pilot experiments that build on existing interoperability of other cyberinfrastructures.
06/01/2015 - 06/02/2015 Reproducible Science Workshop Making science more reproducible has the potential to advance scientific research and make researchers' work more effective and productive. For computational and data-intensive research, which is increasingly pervasive across the sciences, this is particularly true, and yet is often seen as difficult to achieve. In this 2-day bootcamp-style hands-on workshop, we will teach a number of tools, resources, and practices that can be used today to make one's computational science more reproducible.
05/21/2015 - 05/21/2015 SPNHC 2015 Small Collections Symposium The symposium is jointly sponsored by iDigBio and the Small Collections Network (SCNet). Talks fall into three tracks: Small collections - the key to educating future generations of scientists, Digitization practices and challenges in small collections and museums, and Reaching out to small collections.
05/20/2015 - 05/20/2015 SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use. Novel field-collecting methods providing richer specimen data, maturing transcription and imaging techniques, and up-dated end-user interfaces are resulting in greater access to and use of specimen data for a variety of purposes. This has led to increasing use of museum specimen data for analysis and the development of visualization tools that facilitate research and support educational needs and outreach opportunities. We're highlighting talks by students, and focusing on collecting practices that result in faster access to high quality data, sharing improved digitization methods, and finding out how the specimen data is being used in current research.
05/19/2015 - 05/19/2015 SPNHC 2015 Plenary Session iDigBio, the National Science Collections Alliance (NSCA), and the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA) Research Coordination Network (RCN) co-sponsored the Plenary Session at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC). The program included six speakers who kicked off the meeting by presenting thought on the topic of Collections for the 21st Century.
05/04/2015 - 05/07/2015 Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization Workshop iDigBio, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Bishop Museum, and University of Michigan Museum of Zoology are pleased to offer a 3-day workshop focused on the digitization of vertebrate collections, to include the value of live audio and video phenotypic recordings, media metadata standards, media recording techniques (including equipment setup, configuration, and use), methods for linking media to physical specimens, media metadata standards, the value of specimen still images, issues in launching a digitization program, digitization workflows, and digital asset management and archiving.
03/09/2015 - 03/12/2015 Field to Database Workshop What are the leading-edge collecting practices across disciplines? This 4-day workshop offers hands-on collecting in-the-field with invited subject-matter experts from ecology, botany, ornithology, paleontology, marine invertebrates, and entomology sharing their leading-edge practices. We'll head back to the classroom to see how field data is transformed to be suitable for research use. Course includes discussion and hands-on learning for creation of data born-digital and formatted with up-to-date data quality standards in mind from start to use / re-use.
01/13/2015 - 01/14/2015 Data Standards, Data Sharing and Demystifying the IPT Enhance community knowledge needed for data mobilization through hands-on training about Data Standards, Data Sharing, and the DwC-A format generated by the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).
12/3/2014 - 12/5/2014 #CitStitch Hackathon CitStitch Hackathon, the second in a series of hackathons designed to faciliate and enhance the participation of citizen scientists in the digitization and enhancement of natural history and related collections specimen data.
11/15/2014- 11/16/2014 Entomological Collections Network (ECN) The Entomological Collections Network (ECN) and iDigBio are excited to announce we will be teaming up for this year's 24th Annual ECN meeting in Portland, Oregon from November 15-16, 2014.
10/27/2014- 10/28/2014 iDigBio Summit 2014 The Summit is a meeting of representatives from all TCNs, iDigBio, and other activities related to the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit will focus on discussions of shared goals, challenges and opportunities, and collaboration among stakeholders.
10/27/2014 Access to Digitization Tools and Methods This broad digitisation symposium will include multiple sessions, to cover the different elements of digitisation. The key focus will be to cover the developments that are occurring in digitisation but with a strong emphasis on the accessibility of tools and protocols (think open access, open source).
iDigBio and the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration (CCBER) at the University of California, Santa Barbara are pleased to announce Leveraging Digitization Practices across Multiple Domains, a natural history collections digitization workshop to be held 6-9 October 2014 in Santa Barbara.
Research using museum specimen data to investigate complex problems over present, recent, and geologic time scales requires managing, analyzing, and visualizing large and/or diverse data sets. In addition, performing these tasks is increasingly a team effort, requiring collaborative work in virtual environments. Integrated Digitized Biodiversity Collections (iDigBio) funded by a NSF, invites applications graduate students, post-docs, current researchers, (and potentially honors undergrads) for a two-day Data Carpentry Workshop. The workshop will be held (date to be announced) at iDigBio in Gainesville, Florida. "Data Carpentry's aim is to teach researchers basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data so that they can get more done in less time, and with less pain." The workshop offers participants hands-on training in managing the life-cycle of their data and code with a focus on using open source tools.
iDigBio, the North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH), and SCNet collaborated on a 1-day workshop focused on digitizing small herbaria, at Botany 2014. The target audience for this workshop included directors, curators, and collections managers at smaller herbaria that have 1) yet to begin digitization, 2) started digitizing but would like to share ideas and discover new strategies, 3) captured data from some or all specimens but have yet to begin imaging, and/or 4) captured data in an electronic format (spreadsheets, documents, database, etc.) but would like to have a place to serve the data (and/or images) on the web.
Supported by the NSF ADBC program natural history collections of some taxonomic groups are currently being digitized at a rapid rate and digitally available records are reaching a critical mass to impact advanced research applications. By joining an already sizeable body of digital primary biodiversity records these data will contribute to the fact that biodiversity research is becoming a data intensive science and for those taxonomic groups many of the current limitations may be overcome.
what is still missing and how do other existing or emerging digital resources (e.g. DataONE, NEON, EOL and tools like the PhyloJIVE ) interact, support, and enhanced this research.
The digitization of biological specimens is transforming natural history collections for an array of novel research applications, permitting the utilization of large-scale data sets from the comfort of one's own desk. Studies using digitized data include niche modeling, phylogeography, range/distribution investigations, and conservation and biodiversity management, to name just a few.
DemoCamp provides a venue for promotion of technological solutions to advance the field of museum curation and specimen digitization, with broad applications for biology, ecology, and biodiversity informatics. DemoCamp is sponsored again this year by iDigBio, the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC), funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Live demonstrations are welcomed in any technologies relevant to biologists, collections managers, or biodiversity information managers, as well as technologies that enable the broader use of data, or enable citizen scientist participation.
All across the globe, many Natural History Collections (NHC) are digitizing their holdings, seeking funding to digitize, or trying to figure out how they can get started. Logically, with the development of these digital resources, researchers, providers, and users are interested in any specimen data gaps noticed and specimen data use and re-use cases. No matter where you are on this continuum at your institution, keeping up-to-date on what is going on and what is possible is no easy task. In this session, our aim is to provide a broad and deep coverage of current worldwide NHC digitization efforts.
Half-Day Symposium (scheduled for June 25, 2014) at the SPNHC 2014 Annual Conference in Cardiff, Wales. This half-day symposium, presented by iDigBio and the Small Collections Network (SCNet), will focus on strategies for recruiting, retaining, and sustaining small collections within local, regional, national, and international digitization initiatives.
The Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) invited iDigBio to put together a one-day Workshop (9am-5pm Saturday May 24) for TORCH members.This TORCH - iDigBio Workshop is hosted by TORCH and is intended for those who are actively digitizing, or soon plan to, or who have already digitized their collections and wish to make their data available to the iDigBio Portal.
This workshop focuses on using Specify software for paleontology collections. The workshop is a 4-day event ranging from beginning to advanced topics, to include Specify Workbench, forms development and editing, report design, and data cleaning. Participants are expected to have Specify software installed on a laptop prior to the workshop and to bring the laptop with them.
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is running a Data Carpentry bootcamp at NESCent. Data Carpentry's aim is to teach researchers basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data so that they can get more done in less time, and with less pain. Our curriculum includes, 1) getting data out of Excel and into more powerful tools, 2) managing data in R, 3) introduction to databases, combining and querying data using SQL, and 4) collaborative data management & publishing data.
The symposium will emphasize the value of collections data in meeting challenges facing biodiversity and human societies. Digitization of bio-specimens has brought a tremendous amount of data on-line for new and exciting uses in research and education.
iDigBio in collaboration with the Jackson School of Geosciences and its High Resolution Xray CT Facility at the University of Texas is pleased to announce a co-sponsored workshop focused on imaging solutions for paleontological specimens and research. The workshop will be heavily focused on hands on experimentation with various types of imaging stations, cameras, microscopes, and image acquisition and processing software. One full day will be devoted to a hands -on session targeted at generating, processing, and using CT datasets for paleontological research. Datasets will be generated from participant-contributed material; instruction will be provided by staff at the High Resolution Xray CT Facility.
The workshop brings together about 45 collections professionals representing a broad range of preparation types, institutions, and administrative levels, all of whom have interest, expertise, or insight into promoting small collections and ensuring their inclusion within the digitization effort. This is a product-oriented workshop through which SCNet hopes to create and disseminate a set of publishable best practices, chart a course for the future of the Network, and lay the initial groundwork for several international symposia and conferences focused on curation and digitization in small collections.
This workshop is part of a continuing series of iDigBio sponsored workshops focused on organizing, launching, maintaining, and enhancing biological collections digitization programs. The primary goals are to 1) enhance international collaboration and sharing regarding biological collections digitization in the South Pacific, and 2) prepare participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to launch, manage, and sustain a biodiversity collections digitization program individually, through collaboration with an existing Thematic Collections Network (TCN), as a Partner with an Existing Network (PEN), through direct collaboration with iDigBio, or through collaboration with other collections and museums within the region.
The primary goal of the workshop is to produce a document that is specific to the data management needs of repositories. Discussion topics will include preserving data semantics, interoperability, identifiers, names, and services.
iDigBio and Yale Peabody Museum are pleased announce a workshop focused on the digitization of original, specimen-related source materials in natural history collections, to include field notebooks, catalogs, ledgers, cards, and other archival materials that contain specimen-related data.
Representatives from participating fossil clubs, the project team, and other stakeholders from around the U.S. will meet for presentations, brainstorming, and discussion.
NAPC Symposium: "Celebrating Public Participation in Paleontology"
Chairs: Austin J.W. Hendy & Bruce J. MacFadden.
A 1-day workshop for undergraduate students focusing on opportunities for careers and graduate study in field and environmental biology, biodiversity, ecology, and evolution. A primary goal is increasing minority participation in the biological sciences within such groups as African and Black Americans, Native Americans, and individuals of Hispanic ethnicity. Registration is open to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and recent graduates.
Two day workshop to explore the parameters of iDigBio's Education and Outreach directives. TCN presentations, keynote speakers and demonstrations of the Resources and Tools available are among the topics to be addressed.
Co-sponsored by iDigBio, the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State, the North American Network of Small Herbaria, and the Small Collections Network (SCNet), the event brought together about 30 collections professionals from 25 institutions representing 16 states, all focused on strategies and processes for digitizing the collections held in smaller herbaria. More information about the workshop, including recordings of the sessions, and PDF files of the proceedings, are available at the workshop's wiki.
11/19/2013- 11/20/2013 iDigBio Summit 2013 Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.
More than 60 paleontologists representing 41 institutions assembled in New Haven, CT the week of September 23rd, 2013 to share ideas, protocols, preferences, and strategies.
The content of the Ann Arbor workshop included a host of excellent presentations and lots of outstanding discussion, all focused on imaging arthropods. Nearly 30 institutions were represented by the 40 participants.
From across the continent, a diverse group of 26 participants, 10 remote participants, and five instructors gathered in Gainesville from August 12 – 16 for a week-long intermediate to advanced course on georeferencing natural history museum legacy specimen data, emphasizing how to present and teach these skills to others.
This was a "progressive workshop," that began with Specify 6 installation and basics and progressed through advanced topics. Each participant will attend up to 3 consecutive days, depending on need and experience with Specify.
iDigBio joined a digitization symposium featured at the 12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress held at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji which was followed by a digitization workshop for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Canberra, Australia. The Pacific Science Inter-congress was attended by an assortment of biologists, ecologists, and social scientists. The program included a daylong symposium coordinated by Mantle and Dr. David Schindel, Executive Secretary of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life. This symposium, titled Connecting Biodiversity Collections in the Pacific: Digitization through DNA Barcoding and Informatics, spanned Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, with the Wednesday session focused mostly on the digitization and distribution of biodiversity data and Thursday, on DNA barcoding.
This workshop will focus on digitization of dried insect specimens, stored in drawers and trays, either pinned or in packets. A sampling of workshop topics includes specimen label databasing, specimen imaging, ledger and field book databasing and imaging, database selection decisions, and digitization workflows. The workshop will be held at The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois April 24-25, 2013.
There will be a symposium and workshop on museum collection digitization efforts at the 2013 meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB). The emphasis will be on workflow options and workflow efficiency. The symposium will provide exposure to digitization efforts and challenges across taxonomic groups while the workshop will be a one-day training session on workflow concepts and logistics.
This new workshop will focus on digitization of wet collections, to include specimen label databasing, specimen imaging, ledger and field book imaging, and digitization of legacy objects such as X-rays, CT scans, and 35mm slides. It will be held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas on March 5-6, 2013.
This Hackathon addresses OCR output and natural language parsing of natural history museum's specimen label data.
Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.
This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right).
10/01/2012- 10/02/2012 iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group workshop In order to identify best practices and to develop tools for this process and plan a hackathon, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) will hold an "iDigBio Augumenting OCR" workshop October 1-2, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida.
This workshop seeks to identify ways to engage the public in the ongoing digitization of biodiversity specimens.
iDigBio is offering a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching, and maintaining a biological collections digitization program. The first of these workshops will focus on vascular and non-vascular plant digitization and will be held at Valdosta State University, September 16–18, 2012.
07/12/2012 Botany 2012 The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections.
05/30/2012- 5/31/2012 Developing Robust Object to Image to Data Workflows Workshop This research workshop addresses the design, documentation, and optimization of Object-to-Image-to-Data workflows for digitizing biological specimens which are curated in thousands of museum and herbarium collections worldwide.
04/27/2012- 04/28/2012 iDigBio Paleocollections Workshop Address the digitization needs, opportunities and Grand Challenges of the US Paleontological collections community throughout the US.
03/28/2012- 3/30/2012 IT Standards Workshop Bring together experts in biodiversity informatics and related fields. Priorities include: 1) harmonizing data and metadata requirements for digital collections; 2) examining semantic and linked-data approaches to biodiversity data interoperability; 3) developing training and testing resources for georeferencing; 4) defining storage capabilities, interoperability, and computational requirements for the national resource.
11/29/2011 - 12/01/2011 iDigBio Summit 2011 Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.
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Thought Leader Life 057: Guest Ayelet Baron
Our guest and co-host for the month of January is Kelley Steven-Waiss (@ExtremeKelley).
Kelley Steven-Waiss serves as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources where she is responsible for the Company's global human capital strategies. Kelley oversees every aspect of Extreme Networks' talent management strategy, including all global staffing, compensation, employee communications, talent development, and business partnering. She excels in aligning people and resources to effectively execute the business strategy. Kelley has 20 years of executive management experience in human resources, change management, and corporate communications. She excels in aligning people and resources to meet business goals in addition to staff development and recruiting. Kelley comes to Extreme Networks from Integrated Device Technology (IDT) where she served as Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources. Prior to IDT, Kelley was Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources for PMC-Sierra. She has also held executive management and consulting positions in large global consulting firms, public software and retail companies. Kelley earned her MA in human resources and organizational development from the University of San Francisco and a BA in journalism from the University of Arizona.
Our guest on 24 January was Ayelet Baron (@ayeletb).
As a Futurist, Ayelet Baron combines lessons learned from more than a decade as a high-tech industry executive with her roots as a researcher, change catalyst and global leader. This rare blend of expertise enables her to assess and advise individuals and organizations that seek to embrace new ways of running a business from innovation to results. As a futurist at Simplifying Work, she is building a diagnostic tool to assess whether an organization has industrial or 21st century practices to help leaders transform and build healthy and resilient organizations.
Ayelet speaks on the future of work and how to integrate technology solutions (like social media, Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge sharing) into organizations. Most recently, she spoke at SxSW and client's executive team off-sites.
Prior to Simplifying Work, Ayelet was the Chief Strategist, Cisco Canada and helped position Canada as the second largest revenue generating country for Cisco at $1.9B. She was also on the executive team of Cisco's Emerging Markets (covering Africa, Middle East, Latin America, CEE, Russia/CIS) and was the chief strategist for Cisco's $2B global mobile business. As a Cisco Leadership Fellow, she worked with 21 of the largest NGOs and developed a social networking handbook for social good and ICT for Healthcare initiatives.
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Un commutateur empilable (stackable switch ou stacking switch en anglais) est un commutateur réseau qui est complètement fonctionnel pris isolément, mais qui peut également être préparé pour coopérer avec un ou plusieurs autres commutateurs de façon à former un seul « commutateur » logique. La « pile » (stack) ainsi formée a alors toutes les caractéristiques d'un commutateur isolé, mais possède un nombre de ports égal à la somme des ports des différents commutateurs qui la constituent.

Les commutateurs empilables sont d'ordinaire des commutateurs Ethernet administrables (managed switches), montés en rack, de taille 1 ou 2 U. La plupart du temps, ils ont un nombre de ports non modulable en face avant, mais certains modèles disposent d'emplacements pour y placer des modules pour ajouter des ports ou des fonctionnalités. Parmi les configurations fréquentes, il y a les modèles à 24 ports et à 48 ports.

Comparaison avec d'autres agencements de commutateurs
Il y a trois façons d'augmenter le nombre de ports dans une armoire technique :
 relier les commutateurs en réseau commuté ordinaire ;
 utiliser un châssis modulaire et y insérer de nouveaux modules comportant un certain nombre de ports supplémentaires ;
 utiliser des commutateurs empilables.

Les commutateurs empilables ont les avantages suivants sur des commutateurs montés en réseau :
 administration simplifiée (on ne gère qu'un seul commutateur logique) ;
 agrégation de ports se trouvant sur des boitiers différents.

Les commutateurs empilables ont les inconvénients suivants sur des commutateurs montés en réseau :
 des commutateurs de constructeurs différents ne peuvent pas être empilés ensemble ;
 la distance maximale entre les commutateurs est plus limitée sur certains matériels (parfois à quelques mètres).

Les commutateurs empilables ont les avantages suivants sur les commutateurs modulaires :
 montée en charge (scalability - il suffit d'ajouter de nouveaux composants à la pile pour monter en nombre de ports) ;
 flexibilité (on peut un jour empiler les composants et un autre jour les gérer séparément) ;
 tolérance partielle aux pannes (un composant défectueux de la pile sera simplement ignoré et le reste de la pile continuera à fonctionner).

Les commutateurs empilables ont les inconvénients suivants par rapport aux châssis modulaires :
 prix (à nombre de ports équivalent, la pile de commutateurs peut être plus chère que le châssis modulaire et ses modules d'extension) ;
 encombrement, consommation électrique et production de chaleur (chaque composant de la pile a son propre boitier et sa propre alimentation) ;
 les commutateurs modulaires haut de gamme ont aussi de la tolérance de panne.

Fonctionnement
Une des caractéristiques d'une pile de commutateurs est qu'elle est administrée comme un tout. En particulier, elle ne possède qu'une seule adresse IP d'administration, au lieu d'une adresse IP par unité empilée. L'interface d'administration (par ligne de commandes, interface graphique spécialisée ou interface web) est unifiée. Il en va de même pour l'administration par SNMP.

De nombreux constructeurs s'attachent à rendre la pile résistante (stacking resiliency). En effet, si un des commutateurs de la pile est éteint, désactivé ou en panne, les données le contourneront, ce qui permet aux unités restantes de continuer à fonctionner comme une pile.

Dans le cas d'un commutateur multicouche, la gestion du routage peut migrer d'une unité de la pile vers une autre (layer 3 redundancy).

Certaines architectures d'empilement permettent de mélanger les technologies réseau, les différentes familles de produits ou les vitesses de ports (mix and match of technology). Il y a néanmoins incompatibilité entre les commutateurs provenant de constructeurs différents, on ne peut pas les empiler ensemble. En effet, les protocoles de gestion de l'empilement ne sont pas normalisés.

On utilise parfois des liens réseau ordinaires pour relier les unités de la pile, tandis que certains constructeurs utilisent des ports et des câbles spécialisés et propriétaires. Cette dernière solution assure une bande passante dédiée (dedicated bandwidth) et permet parfois d'atteindre des vitesses entre les commutateurs supérieures à celles de connexions réseau ordinaires.

Les constructeurs ne sont pas d'accord sur la définition exacte d'un commutateur empilable. Certains analystes ont dit qu'un produit n'était pas empilable si par exemple la liaison entre les commutateurs ne bénéficiait pas d'une bande passante dédiée.

Terminologie
Voici quelques termes associés aux commutateurs empilables :
 Stacking backplane : décrit les connexions de « fond de panier » reliant les unités empilées ainsi que la bande passante de cette connexion. Dans l'idéal, la bande passante de fond de panier doit être plus élevée que la somme des bandes passantes des liens réseau.
 Clustering : on parle parfois de « grappe » (cluster) pour qualifier un groupe de commutateurs administrés de façon unifiée au moyen d'une seule adresse IP, pour le distinguer d'une « véritable » pile où les commutateurs sont reliés par des liens spécialisés.
 Stack Master ou Stack Commander : dans certaines architectures de pile, comme StackWise de Cisco, une unité est désignée comme l'unité principale de la pile, qui est alors désignée comme le « maitre de la pile ». Toute la gestion est déportée dans cette unité, et des mécanismes de reprise permettent éventuellement d'élire un nouveau maitre si le précédent tombe en panne.
 Slave unit ou Member unit : les unités secondaires lorsque la notion d'unité maitre existe.

Voir aussi

Source

Liens externes
   What is a "Stackable Management Switch"?, EUSSO Technologies, 2003.
  Small Business Stackable Switch White Paper, NETGEAR Inc., 2001.
  Cisco StackWise and StackWise Plus Technology, Cisco Systems.

Ethernet
Matériel de réseau informatique

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Now, before you go on a shopping frenzy, I suggest going through your existing Fall wardrobe and sell (or even better donate to a charity) anything that doesn't fit you any longer or that hasn't been worn in the past year. I, personally give a lot away or sell them on Depop.
Then go online and see what styles and trends are in this season. I prefer to invest in classic, timeless pieces that will save me time and money in the long run – like a well-fitted coat, a pair of boots or a dress that I could wear for various occasions.
While there are plenty of clothing options for expectant mothers like me, sometimes you simply want to wear the rest of your non-maternity clothes. This beautiful camel pea coat by Mint Velvet, for example, will see me right through the third trimester and beyond thanks to its super-flattering fit.
The boots are also a new addition to my Fall wardrobe and one that I will cherish for years to come – they're not only incredibly chic and on-trend but also very comfortable to wear.
Speaking of on-trend pieces – try to stick to a few trendy pieces each season to prevent impulse buys and overspending. Fall/Winter clothes can be more expensive so make sure you invest in the right pieces. When it comes to the finishing touches, I love mixing premium with low-cost jewelry – Next, for example, has the best earrings on the high street, and is always a good stop for affordable jewelry that appears a lot more expensive than they are.
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package com.sap.core.odata.core;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.sap.core.odata.api.ODataServiceFactory;
import com.sap.core.odata.api.commons.ODataHttpMethod;
import com.sap.core.odata.api.processor.ODataContext;
import com.sap.core.odata.api.processor.ODataRequest;

/**
 * @author SAP AG
 */
public class ODataContextImplTest {

  ODataContextImpl context;

  @Before
  public void before() {
    ODataServiceFactory factory = mock(ODataServiceFactory.class);
    ODataRequest request = mock(ODataRequest.class);

    when(request.getMethod()).thenReturn(ODataHttpMethod.GET);
    when(request.getPathInfo()).thenReturn(new PathInfoImpl());

    context = new ODataContextImpl(request, factory);
  }

  @Test
  public void httpMethod() {
    context.setHttpMethod(ODataHttpMethod.GET.name());
    assertEquals(ODataHttpMethod.GET.name(), context.getHttpMethod());
  }

  @Test
  public void debugMode() {
    context.setDebugMode(true);
    assertTrue(context.isInDebugMode());
  }

  @Test
  public void parentContext() {

    assertFalse(context.isInBatchMode());
    assertNull(context.getBatchParentContext());

    ODataContext parentContext = mock(ODataContext.class);
    context.setBatchParentContext(parentContext);

    assertTrue(context.isInBatchMode());
    assertNotNull(context.getBatchParentContext());
  }
}


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