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SPNHC+TDWG 2018

Mike Dickison

Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedian at Large
Wellington, New Zealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/New_Zealand_Wikipedian_at_Large

Former Curator of Natural History at Whanganui Regional Museum, I did my PhD on giant flightless birds but most work on NZ beetles these days. Recently on a one-year contract to work with institutions all over NZ and help them engage with Wikipedia.

9:00am NZST

Conference Opening including Mihi Castle 2Robert Morris • Richard Blaikie • Linda S. Ford • Ian Griffin • Dimitris Koureas • Mana Whenua

9:45am NZST

Building, Growing and Sustaining Global Collaborative Communities Castle 2Robert Morris • Jonah Duckles

10:30am NZST

Coffee Break The Link

11:00am NZST

Collections in an Uncertain World: The Impact of Earthquakes on Canterbury Museum Castle 2Linda S. Ford • Anthony Wright • Picturae

11:45am NZST

Promoting Public Engagement of Natural History Collections through Science Communication Castle 2Linda S. Ford • Bryan Lessard • Picturae

12:30pm NZST

Lunch Break The Link

1:15pm NZST

Tour of the Anatomy Museum The LinkNyssa Mildwaters

2:00pm NZST

Collections Management from the Public Floor; Exhibit Registrars and Preparators Fight against Light, Dust and the Public Castle CSheldon Teare • Lindsay Palaima

2:45pm NZST

S11: TrIAS, leveraging citizen science data to monitor invasive species in Belgium Burns 5Annie Simpson • Quentin Groom

3:00pm NZST

Authenticity in an Uncertain World: Ensuring Accuracy in both the Explicit and Implicit Messages of Exhibits Burns 7Tom Myers • Steven M. Sullivan

3:30pm NZST

Coffee Break The Link

4:00pm NZST

Data Enrichment Facilitated by Existing Inter-Disciplinary Expertise at Auckland War Memorial Museum. Burns 7Sophie Fern • Severine Hannam • Elle Keen

4:15pm NZST

Catalogue of Life Plus: innovating the CoL systems as a foundation for a clearinghouse for names and taxonomyFILLING Burns 5Bronwyn Collins • Wouter Addink

4:20pm NZST

Revising the Dead Art of Skeleton Preparation for Today’s Museum Collections Castle CSophie White • Judith Streat

4:40pm NZST

Composting – Recent Investigations for Specimen Preparation Castle CSophie White • Sheldon Teare

5:00pm NZST

Bone Degreasing – Finding a New Solution to an Old Problem Castle CSophie White • David Stemmer

5:30pm NZST

Ice Breaker and Conference Photograph Otago Museum

9:00am NZST

The Change Imperative: Accelerating the pace of biodiversity discovery and documentation Castle 2Dimitris Koureas • Lee Belbin • Elycia Wallis

9:45am NZST

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

10:30am NZST

Coffee Break The Link

11:00am NZST

S03: Outreach Strategies to Engage Citizen Scientists: Insights from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Grace Costantino

11:20am NZST

S03: How A Citizen Scientist Can Reuse & Link Biodiversity Heritage Library Data Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Siobhan Leachman

11:40am NZST

S03: What are we DOIng about the Missing Links? Connecting Taxonomic Names to the Linked Network of Scholarly Research Burns 2Constance Rinaldo • Nicole Kearney

12:00pm NZST

Labels, Ledgers, Scribbles and Scraps: Uncertain Historical Data Burns 7Anusha Beer • Rosi Crane

12:30pm NZST

Lunch Break The Link

2:20pm NZST

Unexpected Faults: Managing Entomology Collections through the 2010/11 Canterbury Earthquakes Burns 1Sue Cooper • John W. M. Marris • Cor J. Vink

2:30pm NZST

W14: Deep learning for plant identification: how the web can compete with human expertsFILLING Castle DFrancisco Pando • Erick Mata-Montero • Hervé Goëau

2:45pm NZST

S08: An Integrated Data Quality System for Species Observations Burns 2Arthur D. Chapman • Steve Kelling

3:00pm NZST

The Preservation of Two Leopard Seals (Hydruga leptonyx), Ten Years Apart Burns 7Anna Wood • Emma Burns

3:30pm NZST

Coffee Break The Link

4:00pm NZST

Project Paleo: Citizen Curation and Community Science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Castle CTahu MacKenzie • Libby Ellwood

4:20pm NZST

“Critter of the Week”: Wikipedia as a Museum Outreach Tool Castle CTahu MacKenzie • Mike Dickison

6:30pm NZST

Quiz Night Lone StarEmma Burns

6:00pm NZST

Sponsors' Cocktails Otago Museum

9:00am NZST

Join the Dots: assessing 80 million items at the Natural History Museum, London Burns 7Catherine A Smith • Douglas G. D. Russell

9:20am NZST

Containing the Spirits: Lessons learned from the Management of Australasian Herbarium Wet Collections. Burns 7Catherine A Smith • Bronwyn Collins

9:40am NZST

Preserving and Optimising a World-Class African Ornithological Collection Burns 7Catherine A Smith • Mmatjie Mashao

10:00am NZST

Current State of Collections Management Strategies, Standards and Procedures in the Entomology Department at the Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa Burns 7Catherine A Smith • Natasha Govender

10:30am NZST

Coffee Break The Link

11:00am NZST

Digitise This! Innovation in Digitisation Initiatives within Australasian Herbaria Burns 1Barbara Anderson • Dhahara Ranatunga

11:20am NZST

"Look what they've done to our data!" — How Aggregators Change Data Items in Collection Records Burns 1Barbara Anderson • Robert Evan Mesibov

11:40am NZST

A Rapid Method for an Initial Registration of a Large Entomology Collection Burns 7Cody Fraser • Peter Lillywhite

12:00pm NZST

Using Deep Learning in Collection Management to Reduce the Taxonomist’s Workload Burns 1Barbara Anderson • Maarten Schermer

1:00pm NZST

New Systematics & Collections coordinatoring group for New Zealand The LinkDean Peterson Poster Session The Link

3:00pm NZST

Data Detectives - The Backlog Cataloguing Project at Auckland War Memorial Museum Burns 1Emma Burns • Nina Gaze • Heidi Schlumpf

4:00pm NZST

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) and the Changing Role of Herbaria Burns 1Janice Lord • Niels Klazenga

4:20pm NZST

Who Has Time for Biological Collections Data Quality Feedback? Maybe a Community Can HelpFILLING Castle CNicole Fisher • Deborah Paul • Teresa Jegelewicz Mayfield

4:40pm NZST

Storing, Maintaining and Mobilizing Botswana National Museum’s Entomology Digital Collections: The GBIF/BID Approach Burns 1Janice Lord • Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai

5:00pm NZST

Books and Drawers full of Moths Burns 1Janice Lord • Kane Fleury

6:30pm NZST

Conference Dinner Otago Business School

9:20am NZST

All Our Eggs In One Basket: Challenges of High Resolution X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography of Great Auk Pinguinus impennis Eggshell Burns 7Emma Burns • Douglas G. D. Russell

11:00am NZST

Natural History Collections Aotearoa and Australasia Castle 2Nyssa Mildwaters • Robert Morris • Sarah Tassell • Aaron Wilton

12:30pm NZST

Conference Farewell The Link

6:00pm NZST

Farewell Drinks and Nibbles University Staff Club