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7:30am NZST

Registration Desk Open The Link

9:00am NZST

The Change Imperative: Accelerating the pace of biodiversity discovery and documentation Castle 2Dimitris Koureas • Lee Belbin • Elycia Wallis Presentation Drop-off Room Open Presentation Drop-off Room Poster Display The Link

9:45am NZST

If Only They Could Speak Castle 2Dimitris Koureas • Priscilla Wehi

10:30am NZST

Coffee Break The Link

11:00am NZST

W12: What Went Where When? Representing Animal Movements as Simple Darwin Core Occurrences Castle BPeggy Newman Best practices for connecting genetic records with specimen dataFILLING Burns 5Julia Kasper • Michael Trizna Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Revealing Type Collections Down-Under. Burns 7Anusha Beer • Wilma Blom 100 Years of Adhesives: Knowing What Sticks Castle CFran Ritchie • Julie McIntosh Shapiro S03: Outreach Strategies to Engage Citizen Scientists: Insights from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Grace Costantino W18: Names for Biodiversity Castle DGreg Whitbread

11:10am NZST

W12: Setting the Stage – The Life Cycle of Bio-logging Data: Origin, Mobilization and Data Exchange Castle BPeggy Newman • Holger Dettki

11:15am NZST

Best practices for setting up a repository of phenotypic data for European germplasm holdings Burns 5Julia Kasper • Stephan Weise

11:20am NZST

Integration and Curation of At-Risk Collections into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Collections Burns 7Anusha Beer • Benjamin Frable Measuring and Mitigating Mercury Gases in the Museums Victoria Collection. Castle CFran Ritchie • Danielle Measday S03: How A Citizen Scientist Can Reuse & Link Biodiversity Heritage Library Data Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Siobhan Leachman

11:25am NZST

W12: Outcomes of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Ocean Biogeographic Information System OBIS-Event-Data Workshop on Animal Tagging and Tracking Castle BPeggy Newman • Abby Benson

11:30am NZST

Discussion of the Method for Constructing Animal Traits Burns 5Julia Kasper • Jiangning Wang

11:40am NZST

A Case Study for Connecting Collections and Ecological Research Burns 7Anusha Beer • Richard Levy Pyrite Rehousing – Recent Case Studies at Two Australian Museums Castle CFran Ritchie • Sheldon Teare S03: What are we DOIng about the Missing Links? Connecting Taxonomic Names to the Linked Network of Scholarly Research Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Nicole Kearney W12: Discussion Castle BPeggy Newman

11:45am NZST

Automated Trait Extraction using ClearEarth, a Natural Language Processing System for Text Mining in Natural Sciences Burns 5Julia Kasper • Anne Thessen

12:00pm NZST

Using Semantics for morphological Descriptions in Morph•D•Base Burns 5Julia Kasper • Christian Köhler Labels, Ledgers, Scribbles and Scraps: Uncertain Historical Data Burns 7Anusha Beer • Rosi Crane S03: Improving Search Efficiency in the Biodiversity Heritage Library Corpus Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Carolyn A. Sheffield

12:30pm NZST

IG-TG06 Literature Castle DConstance Rinaldo • Carolyn A. Sheffield Lunch Break The Link Harnessing Biodiversity Collections Data for Addressing Global Challenges Burns 7Anna Monfils • Barbara Thiers

1:15pm NZST

Tour of the Anatomy Museum The LinkNyssa Mildwaters Tour of the Geology MuseumFILLING The LinkAnusha Beer

2:00pm NZST

S08: Data Quality Task Group 2: Tests and Assertions Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Lee Belbin W14: Applications of Deep Learning in Ornithology Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Jessie Barry Building Next-Generation Collections: Natural History Specimens, Just One Click Away! Burns 7Anna Wood • Kamal Khidas This Old Herbarium: APHIS Compliance and Renovation Planning Burns 1Sue Cooper • Erika Gardner Beyond the Museum Walls: Developing Inexpensive Discovery Trunks for k-12 Castle CKate Timms-Dean • Julia E. Robinson W07: Specimen Identifiers in Related Disciplines: What can Biodiversity Learn from and Offer to Other Fields?FULL Castle BDonald Hobern • Kerstin Lehnert

2:15pm NZST

S08: Vocabularies of Values: Tackling the Heterogeneity Problem Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Paula F Zermoglio W14: Convolutional Neural Networks for Phytoplankton identification and classification Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Lara Lloret

2:20pm NZST

Mapping Marine Biodiversity: Using Open Source GIS Tools to Visualise and Extract Collection Data Burns 7Anna Wood • Sadie Mills Unexpected Faults: Managing Entomology Collections through the 2010/11 Canterbury Earthquakes Burns 1Sue Cooper • John W. M. Marris • Cor J. Vink Discovering New Fungal Species to Kick-Start a Passion for Science Castle CKate Timms-Dean • Mahajabeen Padamsee W07: Identifiers as Mechanisms for Linking Archaeological Data across Repositories Castle BDonald Hobern • Laura Brenskelle

2:30pm NZST

S08: Avoiding Conflicting Assertions: Approaches to Developing Consistent Test Implementations. Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Paul J. Morris W14: Deep learning for plant identification: how the web can compete with human expertsFILLING Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Hervé Goëau

2:40pm NZST

Plants and People: How Plant Collections can Connect Artefacts and Culture Burns 7Anna Wood • Catherine A Smith Planning for when Push Comes to Shove: Mitigating Risk; Recovering from Disaster. Burns 1Sue Cooper • Dermot Henry Engaging Children with Herbarium Specimens at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s Science Festival Castle CKate Timms-Dean • Melissa Bavington W07: Standardised Globally Unique Specimen IdentifiersFULL Castle BDonald Hobern • Anton Güntsch

2:45pm NZST

S08: An Integrated Data Quality System for Species Observations Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Steve Kelling W14: Deep Learning for Forest Species Identification Based on Macroscopic Images Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero

3:00pm NZST

S08: Data Quality in Data Exchanges: a Tri-Part Approach in the French Information System on Nature and Landscapes Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Rémy Jomier W14: A Pipeline for Deep Learning with Specimen Images in iDigBio - Applying and Generalizing an Examination of Mercury Use in Preparing Herbarium Specimens Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Matthew Collins The Preservation of Two Leopard Seals (Hydruga leptonyx), Ten Years Apart Burns 7Anna Wood • Emma Burns Catching up with Archives – Disaster Preparedness and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Berlin Museums Burns 1Sue Cooper • Peter Giere Turning a Recently-Donated Mineral Collection into a Multifaceted Learning Experience Castle CKate Timms-Dean • Jess Miller-Camp W07: Options to Apply the IGSN Model to Biodiversity DataFILLING Castle BDonald Hobern

3:15pm NZST

S08: Discussion Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman W14: A Methodological Proposal for Collecting and Creating Macroscopic Photograph Collections of Tropical Woods with Potential for Use in Deep Learning Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero

3:30pm NZST

Coffee Break The Link

4:00pm NZST

S08: Sample Management Across the National Ecological Observatory Network Burns 2Lee Belbin • Christine Laney W14: Deep learning for weed identification based on seed images Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero The Importance of Museum Biomaterial Resources and Specimen Records for the Advancement of Zoological Research in Southern Africa Burns 7Priscilla Wehi • Zamawelase Mwelase Developing a GIS of Hazards for Canadian Cultural Institutions Burns 1JP Brown • Tom Strang Project Paleo: Citizen Curation and Community Science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Castle CTahu MacKenzie • Libby Ellwood

4:15pm NZST

S08: Georeferencing and data quality: SANBI’s story Burns 2Lee Belbin • Fhatani Ranwashe W14: Technology Developments for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Steve Kelling

4:20pm NZST

ALERT Lessons From A Biosecurity Disaster Burns 1JP Brown • Gill Brown • Josephine Milne “Critter of the Week”: Wikipedia as a Museum Outreach Tool Castle CTahu MacKenzie • Mike Dickison

4:30pm NZST

S08: The Online Pollen Catalogs Network (RCPol) data quality assurance system Burns 2Lee Belbin • Allan Koch Veiga

4:40pm NZST

A New Method to Access Isotopic Signatures on Preserved Fish Specimens Burns 7Priscilla Wehi • Steve Wing Using Data From Index Herbariorum to Assess Threats to the World’s Herbaria Burns 1JP Brown • Barbara Thiers Digital Construction Kit: 3D Computer Graphics for Creative and Accessible use of Museum Collections Castle CTahu MacKenzie • Jiri Frank

4:45pm NZST

S08: Whip: Communicate and Test What to Expect from Data Burns 2Lee Belbin • Peter Desmet

5:00pm NZST

Global Genomic Resources for Biodiversity Research Burns 7Priscilla Wehi • Jonathan Coddington Adhesives and the Herbarium: International Survey and Application of the Results in Analysis of the Influence of Conservation Materials on DNA of Herbarium Specimens Burns 1JP Brown • Magdalena Grenda-Kurmanow S08: Discussion Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman

5:30pm NZST

SPNHC Council Meeting Boardroom, Otago MuseumLinda S. Ford

6:30pm NZST

Quiz Night Lone StarEmma Burns