BCoN convened a two-day workshop at the University of Kansas on February 13-14, 2018, to explore the obstacles to data attribution and integration. The workshop, organized by Andrew Bentley, has published a summary report which includes key recommendations for action arising from the meeting. Below, are links to the workshop report, agenda, list of participants, and presentations.
List of Presentations:
Session 1
Attribution Patterns in Mammal Collections – Thompson
Integrating Source Modifiers with Sequence Data in Symbiota – Miller
Data Integration and Attribution – Bentley
Proposed Redevelopment of GBIF Data Integration Pipeline – Hobern
Session 2
Big Data Needs Little CRUD – ITIS – Mitchell
Designing Implementing and Benefiting from Attribution iDigBio – Thompson
Postal Statistics – Biting the Hand that Feeds – Bloom
Data Integration and Provenance in EOL – Schulz
Session 3
Avifaunal Change Over Three Decades – Peterson
Biodiversity Heritage Library – Sheffield
Linking Specimen Data to GenBank Records -Sullivan
Case studies in Simplifying Attribution – Guralnick
Challenges of Attribution – Webster
Tracking Data from Download to Publication – Soltis
Session 4
What Publishers Can Do to Facilitate Integration – Parsons
A Library Perspective – Hanrath
Collections Support Through NSF – Beaman
Publishing and Mark-up of Collection Data-Pensoft – Georgiev