PDWG Happy Hours
This page lists information about upcoming and past meetings of the Paleo Data Working Group.
The Paleo Data Working GroupCommunity of practice centered around collections-based paleo and informatics professionals “happy hoursName of the regular meetings hosted by the Paleo Data Working Group” are informal, biweekly discussions about various different topics, including those related to data standards for paleontology collections, digitizing collections, and general collections management. Discussion topics are collaboratively developed, presented, and discussed by working group members, and supplemented with invited speakers when appropriate. No registration is required and anyone is welcome to attend. Happy hours occur every other Thursday at 12pm Eastern (UTC-5), and the Zoom link to join is distributed via our email list and Slack workspace prior to each meeting.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Title | Notes | Recording |
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| 2025-10-09 | Introducing the new Paleo Data Knowledge Hub |  |
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| 2025-10-23 | IGSNs, SESAR, and Biodiversity Collections | |
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| 2025-11-06 | TBD | |
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| 2025-11-20 | TBD | |
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| 2025-12-04 | TBD | |
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| 2025-12-18 | TBD | |
Past Events
| Date | Title | Notes | Recording |
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| 2025-09-25 | Digitizing fossil preparation and conservation records | |
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| 2025-09-11 | Digitization Workflow Roundup | |
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| 2025-08-28 | Open working session | |
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| 2025-08-14 | Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part III | |
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| 2025-07-31 | Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part II | |
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| 2025-07-17 | Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part I | |
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| 2025-06-19 | Indigenous data stewardship, Part II | |
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| 2025-06-05 | Post-SPNHC Updates | |
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| 2025-05-22 | Capturing and managing land ownership data | |
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| 2025-05-08 | Indigenous data stewardship, Part I | |
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| 2025-04-24 | Archives and Collections: a case study | |
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| 2025-04-10 | How to share collection workflows FAIRly with Zenodo | |
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| 2025-03-27 | Connecting specimens and archival materials | |
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| 2025-03-13 | Case study on modeling and sharing data from the Amoco Collection | |
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| 2025-02-27 | Digital data storage options for paleo data archives | |
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| 2025-02-13 | Digitization in the form of collection inventories | |
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| 2025-01-30 | Physical collection storage tracking methods | |
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| 2025-01-16 | Check-in about happy hour topics and goals for 2025 | |
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| 2024-12-12 | Holiday social hour | ||
| 2024-11-14 | Darwin Core review | |
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| 2024-10-31 | GEO OSE project updates | |
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| 2024-10-17 | Fossil dating standards for identification, reproduction and CAREful data management, Part II | |
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| 2024-10-03 | Open discussion | |
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| 2024-09-19 | Fossil dating standards for identification, reproduction and CAREful data management, Part I | |
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| 2024-08-22 | Archival-grade materials and conservation resources | |
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| 2024-08-08 | Open discussion | |
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| 2024-07-25 | Open discussion | |
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| 2024-07-11 | Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS) | |
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| 2024-06-27 | Conference recap from North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) | |
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| 2024-06-13 | Revisiting preparations data, Part I | |
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| 2024-05-30 | Open discussion | |
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| 2024-05-16 | Casts | |
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| 2024-05-02 | Recap from meeting with Catalog of Life (COL) and GBIF | |
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| 2024-04-18 | Revisiting morphology and anatomy data | |
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| 2024-04-04 | Microfossils | |
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| 2024-03-21 | Ichnotaxonomy | |
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| 2024-03-07 | Extended Specimen, Part II | |
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| 2024-02-22 | Shared data stewardship | |
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| 2024-02-08 | Extended Specimen, Part I | |
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| 2024-01-25 | What are you working on this year? | |
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| 2024-01-11 | Welcome to PDWG 2024! | |
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| 2023-12-14 | Holiday social hour | ||
| 2023-11-30 | Brainstorming session on inventorying and sharing collector label information | |
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| 2023-11-16 | Stratigraphy in the Geo Compound Specimen Model | |
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| 2023-11-02 | Reconciling taxonomy in OpenRefine with GlobalNames, with Dmitry Mozzherin (GlobalNames) | |
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| 2023-10-26 | Conference recaps from TaxonWorks Together, SVP, GSA, TDWG, BioDigiCon | |
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| 2023-10-05 | Paleo digitization workflows | |
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| 2023-09-21 | Open discussion | |
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| 2023-09-07 | GeoCASe | |
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| 2023-07-27 | Revisiting people data | |
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| 2023-07-13 | GBIF Unified Data Model for paleo (and geo) specimens | |
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| 2023-06-29 | The Compound Specimen | |
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| 2023-06-15 | Update from the SPNHC Federal Collections Committee | |
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| 2023-05-18 | Digital assets - 2D | |
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| 2023-05-04 | Open discussion | |
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| 2023-04-20 | Digital assets - 3D | |
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| 2023-04-06 | IGSN IDs, with Rorie Edmunds (DataCite) | |
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| 2023-03-23 | Taxonomy, Part III | |
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| 2023-03-09 | Latimer Core | |
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| 2023-02-23 | Taxonomy, Part II | |
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| 2023-02-09 | MorphoSource | |
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| 2023-01-26 | Taxonomy, Part I | |
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| 2023-01-12 | Check-in about happy hour topics and goals for 2023 | |
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| 2022-12-15 | Holiday social hour | ||
| 2022-12-01 | Working group feedback on new website | |
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| 2022-11-17 | Taxonomic identifications | |
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| 2022-11-03 | Extending the conversation: Extinct taxa in an extant world | |
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| 2022-10-20 | Conference recaps from BioDigiCon, GSA, TDWG, SVP | |
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| 2022-10-06 | Wrap up from Wikidata workshop, Part II | |
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| 2022-09-22 | Drafting data models for paleo collecting sites and expeditions | |
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| 2022-09-08 | Regrouping and looking ahead to the rest of 2022 | |
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| 2022-08-23 | Open discussion | ||
| 2022-08-09 | Open discussion, including a demo of new Wikidata integrations in CollectiveAccess | ||
| 2022-07-26 | Open discussion | ||
| 2022-07-12 | Open discussion | ||
| 2022-06-28 | Post-SPNHC, mid-year check-in | |
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| 2022-06-14 | Review action items related to geologic context data | |
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| 2022-05-31 | Managing taxonomic data in TaxonWorks | |
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| 2022-05-17 | Working session for identifiers | |
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| 2022-05-03 | Review of implementation guidelines for georeferencing data | |
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| 2022-04-19 | Working session for geologic context data | |
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| 2022-04-05 | Working session for morphology data | |
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| 2022-03-22 | Working session for preparation data | |
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| 2022-03-08 | Updates | |
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| 2022-02-22 | Working session for taxonomic data, Part II | |
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| 2022-02-08 | Working session for taxonomic data, Part I | |
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| 2022-01-25 | Managing collections identifiers and metadata in the GBIF Registry of Scientific Collections | |
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| 2022-01-11 | 2022 Roadmap, including Wikidata workshop series, DwC topical working groups | |
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| 2021-12-16 | Holiday social hour | ||
| 2021-12-02 | Working session on recommendations for use of Darwin Core terms in paleo collections | |
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| 2021-11-18 | Working session to plan Wikidata workshop | ||
| 2021-11-04 | Identifying connections between earlier Happy Hour topics and action items | |
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| 2021-10-07 | Digital assets and copyright vs. usage rights | |
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| 2021-09-09 | Sharing data about interactions in the fossil record, with Jorrit Poelen (GloBI) | |
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| 2021-08-26 | Managing trace fossils and trackways | |
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| 2021-08-12 | Managing plastercasts, murals, and other non-specimen objects | |
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| 2021-07-29 | Bias in paleo collections | |
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| 2021-07-15 | Open discussion | |
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| 2021-07-01 | Open discussion | |
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| 2021-06-17 | Evaluating vocabulary for describing relationships between fossil specimens | |
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| 2021-06-03 | Overview of the Paleobotany Database (PBOT) project | |
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| 2021-05-20 | Open discussion | ||
| 2021-05-06 | Understanding the new Collections Description standard, Part II | |
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| 2021-04-22 | Geography revisited | |
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| 2021-04-08 | Understanding the new Collections Description standard, Part I | |
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| 2021-03-25 | Getting started with Wikidata | |
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| 2021-03-11 | Open discussion | |
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| 2021-02-25 | How the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) relates to our shared datasets | |
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| 2021-02-11 | Making people data discoverable with Bionomia and Wikidata, with David Shorthouse (Bionomia) | |
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| 2021-01-28 | Tools and strategies for tidying data | |
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| 2021-01-14 | Paleo collections data resolutions for 2021 | |
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| 2020-12-03 | Identifiers for specimens, localities, people, etc. | |
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| 2020-11-19 | How do we count things, Part II | |
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| 2020-11-05 | How do we count things, Part I | |
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| 2020-10-29 | Conference recaps from SVP, TDWG Part II, GSA | |
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| 2020-10-08 | Conference recaps from iDigBio Summit, TDWG Part I | |
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| 2020-09-17 | Taxonomy, Part II | |
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| 2020-09-10 | Taxonomy, Part I | |
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| 2020-08-27 | Citing collections data | |
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| 2020-08-13 | Preparations and standardizing anatomical element terms | |
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| 2020-07-30 | Stratigraphy | |
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| 2020-07-16 | Implementing data standards | |
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| 2020-07-02 | Georeferencing data management issues | |
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| 2020-06-18 | Tools for georeferencing | |
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| 2020-06-04 | Sharing georeferencing resources | |
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| 2020-05-21 | Public lands and sensitive localities | |