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Statement of Purpose
This page offers SPNHC members a permanent place to share and expand the reach of posters shared at SPNHC events such as our yearly conference. Otherwise, posters tend to be ephemeral. Poster content aggregates a LOT of intellectual capital. Let us all change community practice to give posters, people, and the content generated, a broader reach, and longer shelf life.
Realizing the import of collections and related materials [1][2][3], SPNHC recognizes the need to collaborate to develop, discover, disseminate and update best (better, current, recommended) practices for creating digital collections resources and publishing them for global access. Posters linked here represent the efforts of many collections worldwide. All in the collections and standards community are encouraged to contribute.
Poster Guidelines & Sharing
Interested in sharing a SPHNC poster presented at a past meeting? Best Practices committee members are soliciting copies of SPNHC posters from previous conference years to add to the SPNHC wiki. Authors should ensure that they have permissions to publicly share the images and information embedded in posters prior to publishing to the wiki.
In order to standardize content and maintain a web-friendly poster resolution, we ask that authors send digital copies of posters and relevant metadata to the Best Practices committee rather than upload directly to the wiki. Please provide the following information to Emily Braker:
- Conference year or venue (helpful for finding abstract)
- Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Keywords (up to 5)
- Poster formatted as a PDF, down-sampled to ~1500 pixel widths (if you are unfamiliar with resizing, a Best Practices member can do this for you). Full-resolution posters that are not down-sampled can very easily break the wiki since they can consume as much as 1GB memory to process.
- Optional: – email contact, ORCID ID, twitter handle (include only if you are willing share with wiki viewers).
Thank you to all poster contributors, and we encourage past SPNHC poster authors to consider sharing their work on the wiki so that it will continue to serve as a resource for others.
2022 Gallery
This table shares posters from the 37th SPNHC Annual Meeting held jointly with BHL and NatSCA, Edingburgh 2022.
Strengths and limitations and of iNaturalist for plant research
Jordi López-Pujol, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez
Musings of a paleontology community of practice at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Christina J. Byrd, Crystal A. Maier, Jessica D. Cundiff
PyrΔTE: an AI-based pyrite tarnish probability generator
Kathryn Royce, Morgan Davis, Ben Leyland
Vascular plants from North Africa deposited in the BC herbarium
Noemí Montes-Moreno, Neus Ibáñez, Neus Nualart
Georeferencing and Mapping Fossil Vertebrate Localities into the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Statewide Locality Database
Jacob Van Veldhuizen, Chelsea Trenbeath, Chelsea Herbertson
Arctos – GloBI Collaboration Update: Continuing to Extend Digital Records across Communities, Platforms, Collections, and Institutions
Jorrit H. Poelen, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Andrew C. Doll
“Shell games”: A case study of storage and rehousing paleontological and geological specimens after critical infrastructure upgrades to a collection space
Lisa Boucher, Liath Appleton
‘The Art of Observation of things’: Agostino Scilla’s (1629-1700) fossil shark-toothed dolphin (Squalodon melitensis) jaw from the Woodwardian Collection at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Dan Pemberton
State of the Arch: The recent removal, conservation, 3D scanning and reinstatement of the large 135-year-old ‘double’ whalebone arch located in The Meadows in Edinburgh, UK
Nigel Larkin, Steven Dey
Mussel memory: Digitization of the Unionida at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Paige Langle, Marisa Turk, Isabel Hannes
Arctos: Community-Based Collaborative Collection Management for Natural and Cultural History Data
Mariel Campbell, Emily Braker, Carla Cicero, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Lindsey Frederick, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn,Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer, Christopher Witt, Elizabeth Wommack
Outside the box; Specimens of the Malacology Department, at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
Jennifer Trimble
Caught between a Rock and a Pandemic: Finishing an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fossil Digitization Project during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Paul Mayer
Specimen Discovery through Community Science Efforts at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Ashley Bordelon, Jessica Lane, Tiana Rehman
EarthCape – highly configurable and extensible collection management platform for natural history collections
Evgeniy Meyke
Extant and Extraordinary: The Recent Brachiopod Collection At The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Vanessa Delnavaz
Converging Content Between Archives and Museums Using Existing Resources: T.D.A. Cockerell and the Florissant Fossils
Sean Babbs, Helen Baer, Talia Karim, Barbara Losoff
Celebrating an herbarium milestone: CONN’s 200,000th databased specimen
Sarah Taylor, Michelle Hernandez, Bernard Goffinet
Leveraging collaborations to increase digitization efforts in small museums
Alexandra Coconis, Rebecca Glasgow, Nathan Gerth, Chris Feldman
Taxa proposed by Pourret based on the specimens conserved in Salvador Herbarium (18th century)
Laura Gavioli, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez
Increasing knowledge across collections by example of the Valdivia Expedition
Edda Aßel, Christine Zorn
Twenty-five Years of Anthropology Collection Movement and Management at the Yale Peabody Museum
Roger Colten
2020 Gallery
This table shares all posters as part of the SPNHC and ICOM NATHHIST Virtual 2020 Conference. Hover over images for poster keywords.
Playing for Learning in the Museum: A Case for Understanding Human-Nature relationship through Game-Based Learning
Gil Olivira, Nicolas Kramar
A Rocking Revamp: How an IMLS Grant Brought a Fresh Look to the Sternberg Museum Geology Collection
Christina Byrd, Alexa Franks, Laura Wilson
Contraction of Flowering Phenology in Greenland Herbarium Specimens but not Field Observations
Maude Grenier, Isla Myers-Smith, Gergaga Daskalova, Ally Phillimore, Elspeth Haston
Capturing the Flowers of the Sierra Nevada Mountains: The Contribution of the Fresno State Herbarium (FSC) to the California Phenology Network
Katherine Waselkov, Reece Riley, Maria Peña, Katelin Pearson, Jenn Yost
Sowing SEEDS: A model for museum-based teacher certification and environmental outreach programs
Julia Robinson
Collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History – case studies for innovative palaeoecological outcomes
Vivi Vajda , Christian Skovsted, Cecilia Larsson
Living fossils, as an icon for understanding the past and current climate changes
Atsushi Yabe
Moving 6 million specimens 6 kilometers: the monstrous move and systematics switcheroo of the Dutch Herbaria of L, U, WAG and AMD
Marnel Scherrenberg, Roxali Bijmoer
The MICRO (Microfossils In Collections for Research and Outreach) Project at La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California- Gaining Mega Information from Micro Collections
Christine Mazzello
Here today, gone… [date unknown]: Databasing a historic accession and deaccession record
Eva Biedron
The evolution of databasing at the INHS Insect Collection: lessons learned from migrating three decades of digital data into TaxonWorks
Thomas C. McElrath
Identifying, documenting and digitizing types: a priority program in collections management at MUSE – Science Museum of Trento (Italy)
Maria Chiara Deflorian
Ancient LA: Connecting collections and communities with ArcGIS Story Maps
Daniel Markbreiter, Austin Hendy, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Kamal Hamdan
2019 Gallery
This gallery shares a selection of posters from the SPNHC 2019 Conference hosted in Chicago. Hover over images for poster keywords. Posters in this gallery are part of a retrocapture project and therefore not all posters presented at the 2019 meeting are represented below. Poster authors interested in sharing digital versions of posters from previous SPNHC meetings should contact Emily Braker.
Arctos: A Collaborative Collection Management Solution
Emily M. Braker, Mariel Campbell, Carla Cicero, John R. Demboski, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer
Curation of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Fluid-Preserved Mammal Collection: Lessons Learned for Future Curation Effort
Verity Mathis
Entomology Backlog Flats Digitization Project – California Academy of Sciences
Alice E. Fornari, Christopher C. Grinter
Improved Specimen Preservation through Digitization at Canada’s National Collection of Vascular Plants
Shannon Asencio, Heather A. Cole
Crustacea: Restoring and Recoloring Crustacean Specimens for Permanent Display
Madison Erin Mayfield, Alison Douglas
How to See the Story: Visualizing Specimen Data to Read the Scope and Status of a Collection of Mesa Verde Vertebrates
Jessica Mailhot
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The Needle in the Festuca Stack
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Constance Rinaldo
Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures: Contraction, Construction and Containment
Tara L. Rintoul, Benoit Goulet, Zeinab Robleh Djama, Catherine Robidas
Digitization -The Backbone of a Strategy to Increase Accessibility to Vertebrate Collections
Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas
Making a Large Impact on a Small Herbarium: The Impacts of an NSF CSBR Grant on a Regional Herbarium
Andrea Appleton, Colleen Evans, John J. Schenk
Workflows for Sampling Museum Specimens and Cataloging Genetic Samples
Katie F. Ahlfeld, Lisa M. Comer, Mark P. Lehtonen, William E. Moser
Strategies for Associating the Dissociated at the National Collection of Vascular Plants (DAO)
Kelsey Joustra, Emily Ranahan, Shannon Asencio, Heather Cole
Trapping High School Students with Fossils: Utilizing Science Outreach to Curate Natural Trap Cave Fossils and Inspire the Pursuit of STEM Careers
Cory M. Redman, Susumu Tomiya, Kathleen Bitterman, Julie Meachen, Kacia Cain
Capturing the perfect digital specimen – An overview of vertebrate imaging techniques
Marie-Hélène Hubert, Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas
Unossified Skeletal Preparation: Challenges and Applications
Andrea M. Carrillo, Julie M. Thomas, Jeff Stephenson, Michelle L. Sauther, Frank Cuozzo
Osteological Ink: Comparing pens for use in Osteology Collections
Jacki Whisenant, Emily Halverson
Contributors
Current content contributors: SPNHC members Emily Braker, Deborah Paul. We hope that others will add their names to this list as information is added and updated.
References
- ↑ Lawrence M. Page, Bruce J. MacFadden, Jose A. Fortes, Pamela S. Soltis, Greg Riccardi, Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Reveals Biggest Data on Biodiversity, BioScience, Volume 65, Issue 9, 01 September 2015, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv104
- ↑ Nelson, G., & Ellis, S. (2019, January 7). The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Royal Society Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0391
- ↑ Monfils, A. K., Powers, K. E., Marshall, C. J., Martine, C. T., Smith, J. F., & Prather, L. A. (2017). Natural History Collections: Teaching about Biodiversity Across Time, Space, and Digital Platforms. Southeastern Naturalist, 16(sp10), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.016.0sp1008