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TechnoBioblitz Overview TDWG 2010

TechnoBioblitz Overview TDWG 2010. Citizen Science and TDWG . Growing importance of Citizen Science. Citizen Science breakouts at e -Biosphere and TDWG 2009. A theme at TDWG 2010. What can TDWG provide? A community of practice. Common issues across citizen science efforts.

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TechnoBioblitz Overview TDWG 2010

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  1. TechnoBioblitz OverviewTDWG 2010

  2. Citizen Science and TDWG • Growing importance of Citizen Science. • Citizen Science breakouts at e-Biosphere and TDWG 2009. • A theme at TDWG 2010. • What can TDWG provide? • A community of practice. • Common issues across citizen science efforts. • Standards for citizen science? • Darwin Core?

  3. The TechnoBioblitzhttp://bioblitz.tdwg.org • Not really a bioblitz. • Casual, guided field trips within and around Woods Hole, with a support facility for identification, imaging, and computer support. • You don’t need to be on a field trip to contribute observations

  4. Goals • Explore local biodiversity. • Enable observational data to be captured in a manner to develop and promote standards for recording data about organisms. • Provide an opportunity to demonstrate these standards in action and evaluate their potential for uptake and use in a real world event. • Provide technically-oriented meeting participants the opportunity to showcase their technical skills and software solutions by supporting the event. • Seven apps currently in play for the bioblitz. • http://groups.google.com/group/tdwg-bioblitz • Serve as a testbed for experiments in all manner of TDWG technology.

  5. The biobus is coming! The mobile field research vehicle of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. When the BIOBus returns to the lab in Guelph, Ontario, each specimen will be photographed and a tissue sample analyzed to recover a DNA barcode.

  6. Between now and Wednesday • Sign-up at registration. (On-line sign-up has closed.) • Today, 4:30 – 6:30 PM, Bioblitz Lab in Loeb Hall: Testing workflows. • Pen and paper forms and associated images; microscopy images; data into Fusion tables. • Tuesday Lunch: Open house in Loeb Hall Lab. • Get familiar with the lab and its facilities. • Developers can provide tutorials on their apps. • Developers who want to be there – let me know, and we’ll order lunch for you. • Tuesday evening, Meig's Room, Swope Center: the beer mixer. • Beer. • An informal orientation to the next day's BioBlitz activities.

  7. After Wednesday • Thursday, all day, Bioblitz Lab: Identification of specimens. • Play with the fancy equipment that Zeiss has provided. • Identify microbial, marine, and small terrestrial specimens. • Thursday, 2:30 – 5:30, Candle House: Citizen science working session. • Part 1: TechnoBioblitz post-mortem • What worked? What didn’t work? What was missing? • Were existing standards up to the task? • Pulling together a lessons learned manuscript for publication. • Part 2: The future: what will/should it look like? • 1st item on agenda: crafting the agenda. • Likely other items: the role of standards in citizen science; strategies for data quality; the relationship between citizen science and the new field of "community remote sensing”; the role of social and semantic computing. • After TDWG: TBD

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