Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

Sustaining the good work and outcomes the collections community has achieved in creating, disseminating, and using digital biodiversity data has become an increasing challenge for collections professionals. This session will address numerous issues associated with sustainability through a series of talks followed by a moderated panel discussion of those who have found or are seeking effective sustainability strategies.
10:30 - 10:40 Planning for Sustainability - David Jennings, iDigBio Project Manager, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida  
10:40 - 10:55 MorphoSource: Sustaining 3D Data Access - Doug M. Boyer, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
10:55 - 11:05 Sustaining Access to Biodiversity Occurrence Data – Jose Fortes, AT&T Eminent Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
11:05 - 11:15 Open Source Software, Stakeholders and $ustainability – Jim Beach, Executive Director, Specify Collections Consortium, University of Kansas     
11:15 - 11:25 Accelerating biotechnology development and translation: NSF and NobleReach EmergePilot
– Charlene Marini, Senior Commercialization Advisor, NobleReach Foundation
11:25 - 11:35 EDI
11:35 - 11:45 Adventures in sustaining the USA National Phenology Network, Theresa Crimmins, Director, USA National Phenology Network, University of Arizona
11:45 - 11:55 iDigBio: Sustaining the digitization, mobilization, accessibility, and use of biodiversity specimen data in U.S. museum and academic collections – Dunrie Greiling, Principal,Scientific Ink & Consulting. Embedded Entrepreneur, iDigBio
11:55 - 12:30 Sustainability Discussion