Sessions daily, December 6th-10th, on Zoom.
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It's 2021, and time for our 2nd TaxonWorks Together event (6 - 10 December 2021). Join us for a week-long series of activities centered around building the TaxonWorks community. In our second year, we'll focus on learning from those using or experimenting with TaxonWorks in their taxonomic and digitization workflows. We invite new audiences to join us to gather insights for tailoring future directions. Our week includes lots of opportunities to ask questions, meet others and learn about TaxonWorks. These activities are open events and your feedback and contributions will make a difference. Some activities will be highly guided, some information style, and some unconference style.
- Send email to dlpaul AT illinois DOT edu
Taxonomists, ecologists, curators, collection managers, software developers, biodiversity information scientists. If you have questions about TaxonWorks this is the week to ask them. Whether you are very familiar with TaxonWorks or new to our community, all are welcome.
Before the event steps
- Register and select events of interest. You'll be emailed Zoom link(s) prior to/during the events.
- Get a TaxonWorks account to discover TaxonWorks now -- it's ready-to-use, no software installation needed. Send email to dlpaul AT illinois DOT edu
- Get a Github account (not required, but recommended), an account will help you better participate in many aspects of the community.
- New to TaxonWorks? Learn about TaxonWorks features and functions via the TaxonWorks YouTube videos
- Post ideas, requests, questions to be tackled during the week
- If you are software developer and you want to hack TaxonWorks itself, please start reading install_taxonworks and plan on attending the "It's Developer Time" session.
- 3 Minutes 1 Slide: If you would like to present your insights or ideas on a given topic about TaxonWorks, let us know! We'll work it in or add to our post-TaxonWorks Together events. Send email to dlpaul AT illinois DOT edu
- Notes doc for TaxonWorks Together 2021 (https://bit.ly/taxonworks2021)
Scheduled events are subject to minor changes. All events will have question / answer / discussion time.
| CST | UTC | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | |
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| 1000 - 1015 | 1600 - 1615 | Welcome, Origins Introduction, and Logistics | Species File Group Intro pdf |
| 1015 - 1115 | 1615 - 1715 | User Perspectives on TaxonWorks | Chris Dietrich Lily Hart pdf John Heraty pdf Heidi Hopkins Kojun Kanda Michelle Kohler pdf Maria Marta pdf Jim Woolley pdf |
| 1115 - 1145 | 1715 - 1745 | Break | |
| 1145 - 1245 | 1745 - 1845 | User Perspectives on TaxonWorks Part 2 | Panelists and You |
| 1245 - 1300 | 1845 - 1900 | Recap | |
| Tuesday | |||
| 1000 - 1015 | 1600 - 1615 | Introduction to Building a Community Around Your Taxonomic Needs | Species File Group |
| 1015 - 1115 | 1615 - 1715 | Building a Community Around Your Taxonomic Needs Moderated Discussion | Beckett Sterner pdf |
| 1115 - 1145 | 1715 - 1745 | Break | |
| 1145 - 1245 | 1745 - 1845 | Building a Community Around Your Taxonomic Needs A Summary View | |
| 1245 - 1300 | 1845 - 1900 | Recap | |
| 1300 - 1500 | 1900 - 2100 | Break | |
| 1500 - 1545 | 2100 - 2145 | Spotlight on Nomenclatural Data | Dmitry Dmitriev James Woolley Donald Hobern pdf |
| 1545 - 1615 | 2145 - 2215 | Break | |
| 1615 - 1715 | 2215 - 2315 | Nomenclature Discussion QA | |
| Wednesday | |||
| 1000 - 1100 | 1600 - 1700 | TaxonWorks, Origins, Milestones, and What’s Next | Matt Yoder |
| 1100 - 1130 | 1700 - 1730 | Break | |
| 1130 - 1300 | 1730 - 1900 | BBQ Time - You Drive the Development of TaxonWorks Software | Deborah Paul Matt Yoder Tommy McElrath You |
| Break | |||
| 1500 - 1700 | 2100 - 2300 | Discover Matrices in TaxonWorks | Dmitry Dmitriev Sergei Tarasov pdf Kojun Kanda |
| Break | |||
| 1900 - 2100 | 100 - 300 | TaxonWorks LateNite | Please join us! |
| Thursday | |||
| 830 - 1000 | 1430 - 1600 | Focus on Digitization in TaxonWorks | Tommy McElrath |
| 1000 - 1030 | 1600 - 1630 | Break | |
| 1030 - 1215 | 1630 - 1815 | Explore the New DwC Importer | Species File Group |
| 1215 - 1230 | 1815 - 1830 | Recap | |
| Friday | |||
| 1000 - 1300 | 1600 - 1900 | It’s Developer Time | Species File Group You |
From early adopters, our newest members, and those who chose other options, join us to hear about their experiences and their needs.
A Panel Conversation. Your turn to ask questions of our speakers, and add your insights and expertise into the world of what taxonomists need from TaxonWorks.
Today's session, this week
So you need to do something? Are you a Taxonomist describing a species? An Ecologist making a material-examined section? A Collaboration building a nomenclatural authority? A Curator? A Collection Manager? A Developer working with these data? Come discuss what you need to do, and have the TW community give you feedback on how that intersects with TaxonWorks.
A moderated discussion session, designed so that you can and add your insights and expertise into the world of what taxonomists, ecologists, collection managers, developers, and you need, from the software, from community, and each other.
Join Dmitry Dmitriev to discover building, managing, and using nomenclatural resources and tools in TaxonWorks. See Exporting: CoLDP, CSV, DwC
You and invited speakers share their experiences using TaxonWorks to manage nomenclature.
Ever wonder, why TaxonWorks? What makes TaxonWorks unique? In this 30 minute session, we’ll learn about the history, where we’re at right now, and the future of TaxonWorks and look for your insights and feedback.
Using “versioning” software like GitHub, we democratize software development and direction. Join us for this Barbeque (well, you’ll have to bring your own eats) to actively work with the developers to add features, fix bugs, and prioritize what gets worked on. Oh, and emojis are involved.
So many characters, see how the tools in TaxonWorks support the taxonomist and systematist’s workflows. Invited presenters share how these matrices tools support their research. Join us to learn from them and add your insights.
Well, late for those of us in CST, but for you, we look forward to an international group from many time zones. In this informal session, there will be time to chat about TaxonWorks, but also any topics you bring with you to the open table.
This is an introduction to the world of digitization in TaxonWorks. From working with images to Comprehensive Digitization to grid digitizing. (Check out some introductory YouTube videos). We'll focus on management and special highlights such as staged images, the new image task, loan management, creating new collecting events, and of course, getting data in and out of TW.
This is a great section for those new to TaxonWorks.
Your opportunity to see the new DwC Importer. See what features are different. You'll submit a github ticket and learn to add to the issue tracker and get a sandbox account. What has to happen to get data into TW? Join us to learn.
Thank you all for attending, and what’s next
Could be coffee, could be tea, but in unconference style, all the discussion and activities stay focused on topics such as installing TW, the TW data model, the API, and perhaps some work to link the TW API, or developing a requested Page feature.
Some possible topics of interest include: USB booting with TW, work to make stuff faster, import/export, data visualization, and new API features
- The Species File Group (SFG) - a software collaborative group building tools that facilitate cataloging, description, and study of the Earth’s species.