[Nhcoll-l] SCALING UP Digitization: CFP for BigDig 2017 : High Throughput Digitization for Natural History Collections

[Deborah Paul]

Hello SPNHC and a special shout-out to New Zealanders and those in Oceania,

Please help the BigDig organizing committee reach a worldwide audience 
with this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.

RE: BigDig 2017: High Throughput Digitization for Natural History 
Collections
DETAILS here: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wikicfp.com_cfp_servlet_event.showcfp-3Feventid-3D63603-26copyownerid-3D49294&d=DwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=eHqAJZFkaa3QBy-KKwNih-aiAdRTqCj9s3Zov-Hvm1U&s=VrjJcbnWyaNDui019Wau5S80Hwh93rKRKXh83_DiWrs&e= 

WHAT is it? A one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 13^th  IEEE 
International Conference on eScience (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__escience2017.org.nz_&d=DwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=eHqAJZFkaa3QBy-KKwNih-aiAdRTqCj9s3Zov-Hvm1U&s=53gs4GFl-T5Tm5iMjWsnI97jwwSNxPvbWxmAkLaNsb0&e= )

WHEN: 24—27 October 2017

WHERE: Auckland, New Zealand

The BigDig workshop will focus on high-throughput digitization, driven 
by the keen need to move the world’s physical collections into the 
digital realm where they are safer from the ravages of time, can be used 
by larger numbers of scientists and the public, and can contribute in 
new ways to the study of biodiversity. Topics of interest include but 
are not limited to:

* Digitization technologies for high-throughput 2D and 3D capture of 
collection objects
* Instrumentation strategies and algorithms
* Specimen handling, label information capture, OCR, crowd-sourced label 
transcription, 3D reconstruction
* Digitization requirements, metadata, image and 3D fidelity, time and 
resource constraints, speed
* Workflows for high-throughput digitization of natural history collections
* Data management for large and perhaps distributed digital collections 
of such data
* Interface requirements, issues, and solutions both for scientific 
research and for public outreach to extremely large virtual collections
* Applications of the resulting data resource to potentially new science 
and approaches as evidenced by theoretical models, case studies, 
parallels with existing similar data resources

Thank you for your part in extending the reach of the organizing 
committee with this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.

With gratitude and in anticipation,

Debbie Paul, et al on the Program Committee

PS: Perhaps the local organizers of SPNHC-TDWG 2018 could help spread 
the word about this opportunity in NZ?

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-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training
iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
850-644-6366

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