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2022 Roadmap, including Wikidata workshop series, DwC topical working groups PDWG happy hour
A Community-Driven Strategy for Addressing Fossil Taxonomy Challenges Resource
A Guide to the Fossil Footprints of the World Resource
A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) Resource
A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy Resource
Adhesives for Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History: An Illustrated Wall Chart Resource
AlgaeBase Resource
An Information Ecosystem Map of Resources Supporting the Mobilization and Discovery of Paleontological Specimen Data Resource
Archival-grade materials and conservation resources PDWG happy hour
Archives and Collections: a case study PDWG happy hour
Arctos Resource
Assembling an Archival Marking Kit for Paleontological Specimens Resource
Australian Stratigraphic Units Database Resource
BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units Resource
BLM Paleontology Management Resource
Best Practice Guidelines for Repositing and Disseminating Contextual Data Associated with Vertebrate Fossils Resource
Best practices in mitigation paleontology Resource
Bias in paleo collections PDWG happy hour
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Resource
Biology and evolution of the mollusca Resource
Bivalve seashells of tropical west America Resource
Bivalve seashells of western North America Resource
Brainstorming session on inventorying and sharing collector label information PDWG happy hour
BugGuide Resource
Capture inventory data How to guide
Capturing and managing land ownership data PDWG happy hour
Case study on modeling and sharing data from the Amoco Collection PDWG happy hour
Casts PDWG happy hour
Catalog fossil specimens How to guide
Catalogue of Life Highlighted resource
Catalogue of Life Resource
Check-in about happy hour topics and goals for 2023 PDWG happy hour
Check-in about happy hour topics and goals for 2025 PDWG happy hour
Checklist Bank Highlighted resource
Citing collections data PDWG happy hour
Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level Resource
Collection Management Systems (CMS) Explanation
CollectionSpace Resource
CollectiveAccess Resource
Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective Resource
Conference recap from North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) PDWG happy hour
Conference recaps from BioDigiCon, GSA, TDWG, SVP PDWG happy hour
Conference recaps from SVP, TDWG Part II, GSA PDWG happy hour
Conference recaps from TaxonWorks Together, SVP, GSA, TDWG, BioDigiCon PDWG happy hour
Conference recaps from iDigBio Summit, TDWG Part I PDWG happy hour
Connecting specimens and archival materials PDWG happy hour
Controlled vocabularies Explanation
Correlation of Stratigraphic Units of North America-COSUNA Resource
Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar Resource
Current Best Practices for Generalizing Sensitive Species Occurrence Data Resource
Darwin Core review PDWG happy hour
Data standards Explanation
Data wrangling Explanation
DataCite Resource
Develop a digitization workflow using Symbiota How to guide
Digital asset management Explanation
Digital assets - 2D PDWG happy hour
Digital assets - 3D PDWG happy hour
Digital assets and copyright vs. usage rights PDWG happy hour
Digital data storage options for paleo data archives PDWG happy hour
Digitization Workflow Roundup PDWG happy hour
Digitization in the form of collection inventories PDWG happy hour
Digitizing fossil preparation and conservation records PDWG happy hour
Dinosaur Eggs and Babies Resource
Drafting data models for paleo collecting sites and expeditions PDWG happy hour
EMu Resource
EarthCape Resource
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Resource
Evaluating vocabulary for describing relationships between fossil specimens PDWG happy hour
Extended Specimen, Part I PDWG happy hour
Extended Specimen, Part II PDWG happy hour
Extending the conversation: Extinct taxa in an extant world PDWG happy hour
Extinct Taxa in an Extant World: Working towards better fossil taxonomic representation Resource
Fishes of the World, 5th Edition Resource
Foraminifera Database Resource
Fossil dating standards for identification, reproduction and CAREful data management, Part I PDWG happy hour
Fossil dating standards for identification, reproduction and CAREful data management, Part II PDWG happy hour
Fossil invertebrates–collections in North American repositories 1976 Resource
From public lands to museums: The foundation of U.S. paleontology, the early history of federal public lands and museums, and the developing role of the U.S. Department of the Interior Resource
GBIF Unified Data Model for paleo (and geo) specimens PDWG happy hour
GEO OSE project updates PDWG happy hour
GEOLocate Resource
Genera File of Fossil Spores Resource
GeoCASe PDWG happy hour
Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB) Highlighted resource
Geography revisited PDWG happy hour
Georeference collection localities How to guide
Georeferencing data management issues PDWG happy hour
Georeferencing for Paleo: Refreshing the approach to fossil localities Resource
Geoscience Collections Access Service (GeoCASe) Resource
Getting started with Wikidata PDWG happy hour
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online Resource
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Highlighted resource
Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) Resource
Global Names Architecture Highlighted resource
Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) Highlighted resource
Guidelines for Using Wikidata to Mobilize Information about People in Collections: A Paleontology Perspective Resource
Holiday social hour PDWG happy hour
Holiday social hour PDWG happy hour
Holiday social hour PDWG happy hour
Holiday social hour PDWG happy hour
How do we count things, Part I PDWG happy hour
How do we count things, Part II PDWG happy hour
How the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) relates to our shared datasets PDWG happy hour
How to Archive Your Work FAIRly on Zenodo Resource
How to share collection workflows FAIRly with Zenodo PDWG happy hour
IGSN IDs, with Rorie Edmunds (DataCite) PDWG happy hour
IGSNs, SESAR, and Biodiversity Collections PDWG happy hour
Ichnotaxonomy PDWG happy hour
Identifiers Explanation
Identifiers for specimens, localities, people, etc. PDWG happy hour
Identifying connections between earlier Happy Hour topics and action items PDWG happy hour
Image fossil specimens How to guide
Implementing data standards PDWG happy hour
Improving the Adoption and Evolution of Data Standards for Fossil Specimens Resource
Index of generic names of fossil plants, 1820-1965 Resource
Index of generic names of fossil plants, 1966-1973 Resource
Index of generic names of fossil plants, 1974-1978 Resource
Index of generic names of fossil plants, 1979-2000 Resource
Indigenous data stewardship, Part I PDWG happy hour
Indigenous data stewardship, Part II PDWG happy hour
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Resource
Intellectual property Explanation
Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMING) Resource
International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI) Resource
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Resource
Internet of Samples (iSamples) Resource
Introducing the new Paleo Data Knowledge Hub PDWG happy hour
Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization: Collections Management Systems Resource
Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization: Elements of Digitization Workflows Resource
Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization: Georeferencing Resource
Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization: Introduction to Biodiversity Data Resource
Introduction to basic editing in Wikidata Resource
Introduction to data wrangling for biodiversity collections Resource
Introduction to efficient/bulk editing in Wikidata Resource
LACMIP EMu Handbook: EPICC Taxonomy Resource
LACMIP EMu Handbook: Taxonomy Resource
Latimer Core PDWG happy hour
Latimer Core Highlighted resource
Lexicon of Canadian Geological Names on-line Resource
LithoLex Resource
Léxico Estratigráfico de México Resource
Macrostrat Highlighted resource
Macrostrat: A platform for geological data integration and deep-time earth crust research Resource
Making people data discoverable with Bionomia and Wikidata, with David Shorthouse (Bionomia) PDWG happy hour
Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure Resource
Manage data about chronostratigraphy How to guide
Manage data about fossil specimens using Symbiota How to guide
Manage data about geography How to guide
Manage data about lithostratigraphy How to guide
Manage data about people How to guide
Manage data about sensitive localities How to guide
Manage data about shared localities How to guide
Managing collections identifiers and metadata in the GBIF Registry of Scientific Collections PDWG happy hour
Managing plastercasts, murals, and other non-specimen objects PDWG happy hour
Managing taxonomic data in TaxonWorks PDWG happy hour
Managing trace fossils and trackways PDWG happy hour
Microfossils PDWG happy hour
Mikko’s Phylogeny Archive Resource
Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS) PDWG happy hour
MorphoSource PDWG happy hour
Neotoma Paleoecology Database Resource
Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families Resource
Open Nomenclature in the biodiversity era Resource
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion PDWG happy hour
Open discussion, including a demo of new Wikidata integrations in CollectiveAccess PDWG happy hour
Open nomenclature Resource
Open working session PDWG happy hour
Overview of the Paleobotany Database (PBOT) project PDWG happy hour
PBot Integrative Paleobotany Portal Highlighted resource
Paleo Core Resource
Paleo collections data resolutions for 2021 PDWG happy hour
Paleo digitization workflows PDWG happy hour
Paleo specimen data model Explanation
Paleobiology Database (PBDB) Highlighted resource
Paleobiology Database (PBDB) Resource
Paraloid B-72: Practical tips for the vertebrate fossil preparator Resource
Physical collection storage tracking methods PDWG happy hour
Plant Fossil Names Resource
Post-SPNHC Updates PDWG happy hour
Post-SPNHC, mid-year check-in PDWG happy hour
Preparations and standardizing anatomical element terms PDWG happy hour
Pteridophyte Collections Consortium Taxonomic Dictionary Resource
Public lands and sensitive localities PDWG happy hour
Publish collections metadata on GRSciColl How to guide
Publish specimen data on GBIF How to guide
RNames Resource
Recap from meeting with Catalog of Life (COL) and GBIF PDWG happy hour
Reconciling taxonomy in OpenRefine with GlobalNames, with Dmitry Mozzherin (GlobalNames) PDWG happy hour
Regrouping and looking ahead to the rest of 2022 PDWG happy hour
Review action items related to geologic context data PDWG happy hour
Review of implementation guidelines for georeferencing data PDWG happy hour
Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families Resource
Revisiting morphology and anatomy data PDWG happy hour
Revisiting people data PDWG happy hour
Revisiting preparations data, Part I PDWG happy hour
Shared data stewardship PDWG happy hour
Sharing data about interactions in the fossil record, with Jorrit Poelen (GloBI) PDWG happy hour
Sharing georeferencing resources PDWG happy hour
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Resource
Species Fungorum Resource
Specify Resource
Start using Symbiota How to guide
Stratigraphy PDWG happy hour
Stratigraphy in the Geo Compound Specimen Model PDWG happy hour
Symbiota Resource
Symbiota Digitization Workflows Resource
Symbiota Docs Resource
Symbiota Paleo Data Portal Highlighted resource
TBD PDWG happy hour
TBD PDWG happy hour
TBD PDWG happy hour
TBD PDWG happy hour
TaxonWorks Highlighted resource
TaxonWorks Resource
Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and western Santa Barbara Channel Resource
Taxonomic identifications PDWG happy hour
Taxonomy, Part I PDWG happy hour
Taxonomy, Part I PDWG happy hour
Taxonomy, Part II PDWG happy hour
Taxonomy, Part II PDWG happy hour
Taxonomy, Part III PDWG happy hour
Texas Cretaceous series Resource
The Bryophyte Nomenclator Resource
The Compound Specimen PDWG happy hour
The Extended Specimen Explanation
The Flora of Baja California Resource
The Fuzzy Gazetteer Resource
The Imperial gazetteer Resource
The Origin and Evolution of Mammals Resource
The Paleo Data Working Group: A model for developing and sustaining a community of practice Resource
The Rise of Reptiles Resource
Tools and strategies for tidying data PDWG happy hour
Tools for georeferencing PDWG happy hour
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Highlighted resource
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Resource
U.S. Geographic Names Information System Resource
USGS Geolex Resource
Understanding the new Collections Description standard, Part I PDWG happy hour
Understanding the new Collections Description standard, Part II PDWG happy hour
United Nations National Names Authorities and Committees Resource
United Nations Toponymy Training Manual Resource
United Nations World Geographical Names Resource
Update from the SPNHC Federal Collections Committee PDWG happy hour
Updates PDWG happy hour
Use ABCD EFG How to guide
Use Darwin Core How to guide
Use Latimer Core How to guide
Using OpenRefine for natural history collections data Resource
Using wikidata to capture and share information about paleontological collecting sites Resource
Using wikidata to capture and share information about people in paleontology Resource
Vertebrate Palaeontology Resource
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution Resource
Welcome to PDWG 2024! PDWG happy hour
What are you working on this year? PDWG happy hour
Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World Resource
Working group feedback on new website PDWG happy hour
Working session for geologic context data PDWG happy hour
Working session for identifiers PDWG happy hour
Working session for morphology data PDWG happy hour
Working session for preparation data PDWG happy hour
Working session for taxonomic data, Part I PDWG happy hour
Working session for taxonomic data, Part II PDWG happy hour
Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part I PDWG happy hour
Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part II PDWG happy hour
Working session on creating exemplar fossil specimen records, Part III PDWG happy hour
Working session on recommendations for use of Darwin Core terms in paleo collections PDWG happy hour
Working session to plan Wikidata workshop PDWG happy hour
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Resource
Wrangle data in OpenRefine How to guide
Wrap up from Wikidata workshop, Part II PDWG happy hour

Topics

abcd efg
related to the Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD) Extension for Geoscience (EFG) data schema
authoritative source
related to a resource that curates data produced by experts in a particular domain and is recognized by users as being reliable and trustworthy
CARE
related to the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics)
cast
related to cataloged objects that are a replica of the original fossil, including casts, molds, etc.
catalog
related to the process of cataloging specimens
catalogue of life
related to Catalogue of Life (COL)
checklist bank
related to Checklist Bank
chronostratigraphy
related to chronostratigraphy, i.e. information about the ages of rock strata in relation to time
collection management system
related to collection management systems, also known as collection information systems or collection databases
controlled vocabulary
related to controlled vocabularies, including both the concept and examples of
darwin core
related to the Darwin Core (DwC) data standard
data standard
related to data standards, especially those maintained by community groups such as Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
data storage
related to storing data for access and preservation, e.g. on a server or the cloud
data wrangling
related to transforming and mapping data from one form into another with the intent of making the data more appropriate for a specific use
digital asset management
related to digital asset management, including all types of media
extended specimen
related to the concept of the Extended Specimen, also known as the Digital Extended Specimen
gbdb
related to Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB)
gbif
related to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
geography
related to geography, primarily administrative but also including physical; see also georeferencing
georeference
related to the process of georeferencing, i.e. adding geospatial information to collecting localities
global names
related to Global Names Architecture
grscicoll
related to Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl)
identifier
related to identifiers, including types of and applications for using
image
related to the process of imaging specimens, including both 2D and 3D
intellectual property
related to intellectual property concepts such as rights, licensing, and usage agreements
inventory
related to the process of inventorying collections, i.e. capturing data at a level of granularity above the specimen
invertebrate
related to fossils of invertebrate organisms
latimer core
related to the Latimer Core (LtC) data standard
lithostratigraphy
related to lithostratigraphy, i.e. information about geologic strata or rock layers
macrostrat
related to Macrostrat
microfossil
related to fossils of typically between one micrometre and one millimetre in size
mitigation
morphology
related to data about morphology and anatomy
openrefine
related to the software tool OpenRefine
paleo specimen data model
related to modeling data to fit a conceptual paleo specimen
paleobotany
related to fossils of plants
pbdb
related to Paleobiology Database (PBDB)
pbot
related to PBot Integrative Paleobotany Portal
people
related to data about people
physical collections care
related to physical collections care, including preparation and preservation of specimens (see also preparation)
policy
related to relatively formal guidelines produced by an organization
preparation
related to data about fossil preparation (see also physical collections care)
sensitive locality
related to data about sensitive localities, e.g. those where information cannot be fully shared due to privacy concerns
shared locality
related to localities where records for the same one exist at multiple institutions
symbiota
related to Symbiota, including both the open source software, its implementation as data portals, and the Symbiota Support Hub team
taxonomy
related to data about taxonomic classifications and identifications
taxonworks
related to TaxonWorks
trace fossil
related to ichnofossils, or fossil records of ancient organisms including footprints, burrows, feeding marks, etc.
treatise ip
related to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
vertebrate
related to fossils of vertebrate organisms
wikidata
related to the Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines
workflow
related to procedures, guidlines, best practices, manuals, etc. created to facilitate work