Scientific names indexing and data mobilization of Biodiversity Heritage Library using tools from Global Names project.

When and Where

June 17 - June 19 2019

Conference room @ Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign

Directions to the conference room 1005: bronze bison -> doors -> turn left

Description

We organize this workshop to bring together researches who use Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), librarians who supply content and meta-data to BHL, and developers of BHL infrastructure.

Main topics of the workshop:

Demonstrate name-finding algorithms for creating name index for BHL.
Develop and try ways for fast mobilization of BHL data and metadata.
Discuss improvements for future versions of BHL, creating a wish list.
Figure out opportunities for the future development of BHL and Global Names tools for enrichment of BHL meta-data

Schedule

Date	Time	Event
June 16	all day	Arrival
June 17	9AM - 5PM	Day 1
June 17	6:30PM	Welcoming Dinner
June 18	9AM - 5PM	Day 2
June 19	9AM - 12PM	Day 3
June 19	12PM - 2PM	Wrap up

Contact and Logistics

Foe general questions contact Dmitry Mozzherin mozzheri@illinois.edu

For flight and hotel accomodations contact Cathy Bialeschki: cathyb@illinois.edu

For airfare:

Name (as it appears on ID used at airport check in)

Birthdate

Departing airport w/travel dates and timing preference

City/state of residence

Cell number for airline reservation record

For hotel

name, arrival date and departure date

Funding

The workshop is funded by NSF award #1356347