Entomological Collections Network

Many (but not all) of the talks from the 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego can be downloaded here. Please note, that these are merely powerpoint presentations in pdf format - and thus do not have audio recordings to narrate the talks.

The views and opinions expressed in these talks are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the ECN or the general ECN membership.

Please also be aware that these presentations were given in the context of a spoken narrative by the speaker, and extreme care should be taken in interpreting individual slides out of their greater context.

If you are an ECN presenter and would like your powerpoint presentation added - removed - or replaced with an edited version; please let me know: Christopher Marshall: marsahch@science.oregonstate.edu

-Chris

STILL WORKING on getting PDF - PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER (December 12, 2010- CJM)

Saturday, December 11

Barbara Sharanowski
University of Manitoba
Introducing the Wallis-Roughley Museum of Entomology (University of Manitoba): the largest insect museum in Western Canada

Andrew Austin¹ & Mark Harvey^2
1The University of Adelaide
²Western Australian Museum
Universities, Museums and Private Industry: a unique partnership in collection-based taxonomic research

Peter DeVries
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web

Robert S. Anderson¹ & John T. Longino^2
1Canadian Museum of Nature
²The Evergreen State College
From field data to data fields: How Project LLAMA does it

Lynn Kimsey
University of California Davis
The Trials and Travails of Curating Alcohol Collections

Jenna Castle
University of California Santa Barbara / San Diego Natural History Museum
All Dried Up:  A case study of rehydration techniques and the Clipperton Island collection at the SDNHM

Eugenio H. Nearns, Nathan P. Lord & Kelly B. Miller
Department of Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
Systematics in the 21st Century - Developing Lucid Keys to Enhance Taxonomy

                                   Digitization Symposium Introduction – Andy Deans

Derek Sikes -
University of Alaska Museum
Digitization of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection

Randall T. Schuh
American Museum of Natural History
Web-based data capture: an update from the AMNH

Lawrence Gall & Leonard Munstermann
Yale University, Peabody Museum
Digitizing the Yale collections: it takes a village

Patricia Gentili-Poole
Smithsonian Institution
Lepidoptera Types Digitization at the NMNH-Smithsonian Institution

Morris, Paul J.^1,2, Eastwood, Rod², Ford, Linda S.², Haley, Brendan², Pierce, Naomi E.^2
1Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA 02138
²The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Innovative workflows for efficient data capture in an entomological collection: The MCZ Lepidoptera Rapid Data Capture Project
 
Michael Wall
San Diego Natural History Museum
Not another fricking database!?!

Piotr Nasrecki
Museum of Comparative Zoology – Harvard University
Digital type specimens – where are we 15 years later?

Colin Favret1 & Gary L. Miller2
1AphidNet, LLC, 2Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA
Digitizing Insect Specimens on Microscope Slides

Norm Johnson & Luciana Musetti
Ohio State University
Applications of digitized specimen records

Andrew R. Deans & Matthew A. Bertone
North Carolina State University Insect Museum
Utility (and shortcomings) of high resolution drawer imaging for remote curation and outreach

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Gail E. Kampmeier
Illinois Natural History Survey
Echoes from TDWG 2010

Frank Krell
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
ZooBank Progress Report

Mary Liz Jameson
Wichita State University
Transforming Biodiversity Science with The Biofinity Project

Doug Yanega¹ & John Ascher^2
1University of California Riverside
²American Museum of Natural History

Talk #1: DBCNet ("Digital Bee Collection Network")
Talk #2: Collaborative databasingof North American Bee Collections (NSF-BRC Grant)

Max Barclay
British Museum of Natural History