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Monday, October 2
 

14:00 EDT

[S28] The Arctos Community Model for Sustaining and Enriching Access to Biodiversity Data
Abstract
Arctos (http://arctosdb.org) is a leader in providing museums with collaborative solutions to managing information in their collections. As both a community and a collection management database platform, Arctos is a consortium of museums that collaborate to serve secure and rich data on over 3 million records from natural and cu ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20466

Speakers
JW

John Wieczorek

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. CA, United States of America


Monday October 2, 2017 14:00 - 14:15 EDT
Ballroom A

14:15 EDT

[S28] Interoperability, Attribution, and Value in the Web of Natural History Museum Data
Abstract
Collections, aggregators, collaborative digitization projects, publishers, researchers, and external users are actors in a complex web of biological specimen data interactions, workflows, and pipelines. The software that mediates interactions among these diverse players enables the creation and delivery of species occurrence data from specimens to a ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.21095

Speakers
AB

Andrew Bentley

Ichthyology Collections Manager, University of Kansas


Monday October 2, 2017 14:15 - 14:30 EDT
Ballroom A

14:30 EDT

[S28] Sustainability in Biodiversity Software Development: More financing or better practices?
Abstract
The Species File Group is a small, endowed team who seeks to provided software tools and related technical resources to communities dependent on biodiversity informatics. We will present an overview of the technical products and services the group provides, including software development, data migration, data hosting and data mo ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20283

Speakers
avatar for Matt Yoder

Matt Yoder

University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, United States of America


Monday October 2, 2017 14:30 - 14:45 EDT
Ballroom A

14:45 EDT

[S28] Maintenance and development of Symbiota2, a platform for data sharing and visualization
Abstract
Symbiota is a database management system for aggregating and displaying record-based biodiversity information from collections of widely varying sizes and integrating them with images of living organisms and image-based records. It is currently used by over 230 collections that collectively provide access to records of over 20 m ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20220

Speakers
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Mary E. Barkworth

Utah State University


Monday October 2, 2017 14:45 - 15:00 EDT
Ballroom A

15:00 EDT

[S28] Sustaining Software for Biological Collections Computing
Abstract
Specify is a biological collections data management platform for the digitization, curation, and dissemination of museum specimen information. The Specify Software Project and its predecessor, the MUSE Project, have been funded by the US National Science Foundation for 30 years. Specify 6, a native desktop app is used in about 5 ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20254

Speakers
JH

James H. Beach

University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States of America, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States of America


Monday October 2, 2017 15:00 - 15:15 EDT
Ballroom A

15:15 EDT

[S28] DINA: Open Source and Open Services - A Modern Approach for Sustainable Natural History Collection Management Systems
Abstract
In the natural history community a high diversity of collection management systems exist. This enables institutions to choose from a large variety of systems, but this choice requires extensive effort to evaluate and commit to an appropriate system to cover all long-term requirements. As the different kinds of natural history da ... https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20216

Speakers
SD

Stefan Daume

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
FG

Falko Glöckler

Head of Department "Science Data Management", Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
EM

Elspeth Margaret Haston

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
JH

Jana Hoffmann

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, Germany
JA

James A. Macklin

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
FR

Fredrik Ronquist

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden


Monday October 2, 2017 15:15 - 15:30 EDT
Ballroom A
 
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