Logistics

• Deborah Paul, Geoff Ower

Settle in. Pre-meeting checks (test your mic and web-cam, confirm access to supporting documents, preview presentor's slides etc.), help with Zoom functions, last second technical scrambles.

Welcome and Overview

• Matt Yoder, Deborah Paul

Learn about what topics we will cover at TWT2024 and about opportunities for you to contribute and perhaps be one of our inaugural winners of our first annual TaxonWorks Awards.

The Latest from TaxonWorks and the Species File Group

With a focus on the past "year" we briefly highlight the diversity of TaxonWorks users and what they can do in TaxonWorks. Then the primary focus- what's new, improved, and causing excitement this year.

Our New and Experienced TaxonWorks Adopters Share Their Experiences

Hear directly from those adopting and helping to develop TaxonWorks. Get insights from the nuances and culture change perspectives they share.

• Samanta OrellanaGenerating an Illustrated Catalog of Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) with TaxonWorks and TaxonPages
• Paul BrockMoving Our Phasmida Species File Data to TaxonWorks and TaxonPages
• Brian FisherAnt Web and TaxonWorks and Open Source Software
• Davide Dal PosGetting Wasp Data In and Out of TaxonWorks
• Enrico Gabrielli, Adriano CazzuoliInvestigating Biological Associations and Relationships Using the UCD@TW API -- Experimental agroforestry farm "Regenerating Villa Fortuna" Malaise traps

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From Plazi to TaxonWorks

• Deborah Paul, James Woolley, Donat Agosti

We plan to share our experiment to use Plazi treament files to get new taxon names into TaxonWorks. Plazi will give us their perspective on what we did and ideas for future collaboration and what they plan to work on in the coming years. New to Plazi? See this treatment https://treatment.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FFA0AE675753FFF9FFC5FFF1FFA9530C for an example of how Plazi gets data out of publications into a format we can take advantage of for uploading to our database(s) via files or the Plazi API.

Growing Taxonomic Communities

• Maria Marta Cigliano, Davide Dal Pos, James Woolley, Dmitry Dmitriev, Jennifer C. Girón Duque

A Panel (including you, the participants) discussing the realities of what it means to build a sustainable, flexible, engaged community. Panelists using TaxonWorks in their communities share their experiences and you get to share yours too. Questions up for discussion include: How / why are our software adopters building community, for example, moving away from one-person-does-it-all. What is proving to be key (or still challenging) in getting folks to adopt new processes / standards-of-practice? What tools, products, and resources do you envision we need going forward? What should we do next? When we're caught up with nomenclature, or hit a specific milestone, what steps will catalyze future growth for our communities?

Break

Your TaxonWorks Adventure Begins (Demos and Tours)

Choose your own TaxonWorks Adventure and explore the possibilities and learn together. Unconference-style, you, the participants choose what you would like to see and we set off on various paths to illuminate some of the features and functions of TaxonWorks.

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Logistics

• Deborah Paul, Geoff Ower

Settle in. Pre-meeting checks (test your mic and web-cam, confirm access to supporting documents, preview presentor's slides etc.), help with Zoom functions, last second technical scrambles.

Welcome and Overview

• Matt Yoder, Deborah Paul

A Data Quality Round Table Conversation

• Markus Doering (GBIF), Paleo Data Working Group (PDWG), Robert Mesibov, Deborah Paul, Cat Chapman (iDigBio), Matt Yoder, You

From data quality (e. g. completeness, consistency, compliance), to data management, expect an in-depth congenial local-to-global conversation. From the data aggregator, to the working group, the researcher, the collection / data manager, and the data analyst, what do we each experience, what do we dream of? How is data-quality an outcome of processes? Looking for alignment opportunities.

A Look Inside One’s (TaxonWorks) Data

• Deborah Paul, You

What’s in those buckets anyway in your database fields? How do you know where to find issues? When and how do you find snafus and how do you fix them? We explore the promise of the new Project vocab task in TaxonWorks. What are your processes and needs for doing this work to enhance and extend your data? How has the evolution of TaxonWorks illuminated outstanding data-quality challenges and what does it offer to make it eas(ier) to address them?

Balancing Global Agency and Local Precision. Roundtrip your feedback.

• David Shorthouse

We learn how a feedbackURL term, if added to Darwin Core, could help give all of us more agency to both discover and fix noted issues in our published datasets. Find out what's in it for you - why round-tripping matters.

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Managing (and Growing) a Community of Code

• Maarten Trekels, Matt Yoder

Guest panelist Maarten Trekels, Biodiversity Data Scientist and Project Coordinator for Meise Botanic Garden in Belgium, joins us to highlight the opportunities, expectations, and nuances involved in Open Source software development. At TaxonWorks, as an Open Source community, we aspire to enable users and developers (of course, some folks fall into both classes) equally. Learn more and add your insights for what it's like to manage code, pull requests, and people who are touching said code and repos from different directions and levels of proficiency and engagement.

Managing Natural History Collections in TaxonWorks: Perspectives, Tips, and Highlights of New Digization Workflows.

• Tommy McElrath

An opportunity to hear from and talk to those actively managing their scientific collections in TaxonWorks, share tips on what does/not work for you, and get a refresh on some of the new tools that have emerged since the last TWT.

Your Turn, 3 Minutes 1 Slide

Inspired by something you thought of or heard? Want to share your thoughts, ideas, processes? All at TWT2024 can share. Let us know and we will add you to the program.

Open Conversation, Review, and Sneak Peek for Tomorrow (Awards!)

• All of us

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Logistics

• Deborah Paul, Geoff Ower

Settle in. Pre-meeting checks (test your mic and web-cam, confirm access to supporting documents, preview presentor's slides etc.), help with Zoom functions, last second technical scrambles.

Welcome and Overview

• Matt Yoder

TaxonWorks - A developer-focused (everyone can be a developer!) conversation on present and future milestones, architecture, and community contributions to our open-source effort

• Matt Yoder, You

Highlights of some amazing "external" contributions from this year, and why they were made possible from a technical perspective. An overview of how code and documentation makes it into TaxonWorks. Discussion of what we can do to catalyze growth in these areas. What strategies, tools, and resources might we might we employ or engage with to increase the chance of growing our community?

Show and Tell - Wrapping biodiversity-from OpenRefine to R, Ruby and Python libraries wrapping APIs

• Geoff Ower, Deborah Paul, Dmitry Mozzherin

Efforts like GlobalNames and TaxonWorks make biodiversity data accessible at many different levels. Find out how the SFG is providing tools that unlock not only our data but others, and how we are enhancing tools like OpenRefine. How can wrappers change your workflows?

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Your Turn, 3 Minutes 1 Slide

Inspired by something you thought of or heard? Want to share your thoughts, ideas, processes? All at TWT2024 can share. Let us know and we will add you to the program.

Vision: Integrating the TaxonWorks Experience Into a Taxonomy Course

• Elspeth Haston, Matt Yoder, Deborah Paul

Guest panelist Elspeth Haston, Deputy Herbarium Curator, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, joins us to share her ideas for integrating TaxonWorks as a resource and experience for students taking taxonomy courses. With us, you'll have the opportunity to share your insights for how this might work. This fits directly into our TW vision and mission to include the community in the building of tools that support taxonomy and offer features and functions as needed by those doing the work. Each new generation of taxonomists is faced with an increasing number of species to define, document and identify. There is also a rapidly increasing number of specimens to examine and identify. Effective tools are essential for researchers to carry out the level of work required to ensure that the world’s biodiversity is understood and conserved. Critically, these need to be readily accessible to students to ensure that they are learning and using the state-of-the-art techniques and tools from the start of their career. This session will discuss the role of TaxonWorks in education programmes and how we can provide access and training to new generations of taxonomy students.

Our collective geospatial future

• Open Conversation

An open conversation on geospatial topics (technical and social) that intersect with our workbenches. We'll introduce 3 challenges the TaxonWorks team has hit, and collectively brainstorm as to what we'd love to see in the future. Have a cool feature, tool, or geospatial resource? Please share them in this whirlwind session.

Species File Group Business Meeting (and Awards!)

Our annual report to our collaborators as to our organizational funding and resources and impact. Transparency on how we collectively prioritize the use our resources, manage our data, and our thinking re evolving what we do. Reminders and updates on our shared norms and expectations with regards to the nature of the tools and support the SFG provides. Questions and answers. A light-hearted first-annual TaxonWorks Community Awards.

What's Next?

• Open Conversation

We wrap with an open conversation. Come for a healthy dose of transparency and stay to request new features, make a case for priorities, and to brainstorm novel features, in TaxonWorks and the broader biodiversity informatics world.

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