[Nhcoll-l] TOMORROW (Nov 13) - Arctos webinar - Georeferencing and Managing Geography in Arctos

[Emily M. Braker]

Please join us Tuesday, November 13  for the second webinar in a two-part series on Arctos geographical data - Part II: georeferencing and managing geography in Arctos.

Abstract:
In Part 2 of ARCTOS Geography webinars, we focus on how to manage and improve geographic data in Arctos, as well as best practices with specific use-cases. Arctos uses four interconnected tables to create a spatial stack of geography for every specimen. We review these tables, which were discussed in Part 1, and show how to improve locality information by standardizing and georeferencing. Specifically, we demonstrate Geolocate, one of the embedded georeferencing tools that translates locality descriptions into coordinates. We also show how that data is saved directly in Arctos, and how to edit localities, specimen events, and collecting events. Each collection has its own set of procedures for managing data and we attempt to show a broad set of use-cases as well as discuss any scenarios that participants wish to bring up.

Presenters: Michelle Koo (GIS & Biodiversity Informatics Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology), Tom Giermakowski (Sr. Collection Manager, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Museum of Southwestern Biology), and Andrew Doll (Assistant Collection Manager, Zoology Collections, Denver Museum of Nature and Science).

When: Tuesday November 13, 2018, at 3:00 pm ET

Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room

Can't make it? View archived recordings and Part I of the geographical data series here: https://arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/

This is the 12th in a series of webinars on Arctos brought to you by the Arctos Working Group and kindly hosted by iDigBio.


Emily Braker
Vertebrate Collections Manager, Zoology Section
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
265 UCB, Bruce Curtis Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0218
Phone: 303-492-8466
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