Workshop Day on open/FAIR Natural History Data
The workshop day is intended for curators, managers, and users of natural history collections in Switzerland. It serves as a forum to draw up an overview of the current situation regarding data management and digitization in Swiss institutions and sets the collections and their data in the wider context of the emerging ecosystem of open/FAIR natural history data with its various infrastructures, stakeholders, initiatives, usage scenarios, value-added services, and governance structures.
The workshop day is a pre-event of the GLAMhack 2022, organized by the OpenGLAM working group of the Opendata.ch association, hosted by the Natural History Museum of Bern and supported by Plazi.org and the eBioDiv Project, in cooperation with SwissCollNet and Infofauna.
For detailed program check out this link.
Time: 09:15 – 17:00
Place: Natural History Museum of Bern
Programm of the Workshop Day
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Check-in / Welcome Coffee | Foyer |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Welcome Address Short Presentation of OpenGLAM (Open Data) and the GLAMhack, data ecosystem perspective Introduction to the programme of the day / practical information | Auditorium |
| 10:15 – 11:30 | Presentation of activities of various parties in the area of data management: – Towards a virtual natural history collection (Michael Greeff, SwissCollNet) – Collection databases (Stefan Hertwig, Natural History Museum of Bern) – The data aggregation process in Switzerland (Lukas Wotruba, Datenzentrum Natur und Landschaft) – Usage scenarios for natural history collection data (Tim Hirsch, GBIF International) – Connecting biodiversity data infrastructures (Donat Agosti, Plazi.org) – Providing access to information about collection items in a central database – the case of geological data (Rachel Walcott, National Museums Scotland | Auditorium |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee Break | Foyer |
| 12:00 – 12:50 | Panel Discussion: Main challenges regarding the collaborative management and use of natural history data | Auditorium |
| 12:50 – 13:50 | Lunch Break | TBD |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | Introduction to the Workshops | Auditorium |
| 14:00 – 14:50 | Workshops Round 1: 1. Towards a virtual natural history collection (Michael Greeff, SwissCollNet) 2. Improving the data aggregation process (Glenn Litsios / Lukas Wotruba) 3. Enriching collection databases with research data about collection items (Donat Agosti) | Auditorium and break-out rooms |
| 15:00 – 15:50 | Workshops Round 2: 1. Putting data from natural history collections to use (tbd / Tim Hirsch, GBIF International) 2. How to deal with sensitive data in the context of Open/FAIR Biodiversity Data? (Christian Kropf / Glenn Litsios) 3. Mapping the biodiversity data ecosystem and locating the Swiss stakeholders (tbd / Beat Estermann) | Auditorium and break-out rooms |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Workshop Wrap-up in the Plenary (5’ summary from each workshop) | Auditorium |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Getting ready for the GLAMhack on 4-5 November in Mendrisio Explanation of the functioning of the GLAMhack Submission of challenges Q&A | Auditorium |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Farewell Announcement of next steps | Auditorium |
If you want to sign up for the GLAMHack itself check out this link
