Of Workflows , Protocols and Expert or Novice?

iDigBio is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (Cooperative Agreement EF-1115210). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Of Workflows, Protocolsand

Expert or Novice?

12 – 16 August 2013

2nd Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing WorkshopGainesville, Florida

Deborah Paul, Gil Nelson, Austin Mast (dpaul@fsu.edu)

(Florida State University, iDigBio, iDigInfo)

Workflows

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Digitization Resourceshttp://tinyurl.com/idigresources

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Informal Digitization SurveyiDigBio staff compiled a survey

collection type informationprotocolsspecimen handling logisticsimagingspecimen data entrygeoreferencing

Community feedback: Survey helpedfinding gaps in documentationhelping with writing of workflows & protocolsorganizing workflows for sharing & archiving

5 task clusters, + 1 3 workflow patterns

blue shading indicates specimen handling steps

Key Clusters

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WrittenWorkflow

s

Image / Data

Storage

Georeferencing

Personnel

Pre-digitizati

on Curation

orStaging

Image Capture

Data Capture

Image Processing

Biodiversity Informatics

Manager

Workflows aka ProtocolsShare, Review, Get input

Look for bottlenecks (people, equipment, software)

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iDigBio is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (Cooperative Agreement EF-1115210). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

How “expert?”Just how much training does it take to accurately georeference a locality?

Gil Nelson (gnelson@bio.fsu.edu) Florida State University, iDigBio, iDigInfoAustin Mast (amast@bio.fsu.edu) Florida State University

2nd Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing Workshop12 – 16 August 2013

Gainesville, Florida

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Experiment under way at Florida State University:

How much training does it take to accurately georeference a locality?

1. Trained techs with regular communication.

2. Plant biology students with about 30 minutes of training.

Apalachicola National Forest. Verbatim Locality: titi bog, Appalachia National Forest, near Wilma.Habitat: in a sphagnous area, presently dry, titi bog.

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