Volunteer portal, Telemark Botanical Society

Large number of specimens in the Natural History Museums remain un-digitized and are not yet available in electronic form. The Volunteer Portal is a citizen science project where amateur naturalists are invited to contribute to the electronic registration of herbarium collections. Telemark Botanical Society will help us to test and explore the Volunteer Portal.

Time and place: May 3, 2017 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Menstad, Skien, Telemark

Example Specimen O:V:516556

We are (preliminary) planning a workshop on 3rd of May at Menstad ungdomsskole in Skien to demonstrate the Volunteer Portal to invited members from the Telemark Botanical Society.

 

Agenda:

17:30 Presentation of the Volunteer Portal and how UiO: Natural History Museum in Oslo are working on digitizing the herbarium collections (Emily Oswald)

17:40 Information about digitization of herbarium specimens at the Natural History Museum in Oslo (Bjørn Petter Løfall)

17:50 How will the results from the Volunteer Portal become openly and freely available online for the members of the Telemark Botanical Society (and others). Open publication of biodiversity information in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Information Service (Artskart) (Dag Endresen)

18:00 Demonstration and detailed step-by-step instructions for creating a user account and using the Volunteer Portal (Christian Svindseth)

18:15 Questions and discussion.

18:30 Hands-on practical exercise and guidance on using the Volunteer Portal.

19:30 Wrap-up

 

Forslag til agenda (in Norwegian):

17:30 Presentasjon av dugnadsportalen og hvordan UiO: Naturhistorisk museum i Oslo arbeider med digitalisering av samlingene (Emily Oswald)

17:40 Informasjon om masse-digitalisering av herbarieark ved Naturhistorisk museum i Oslo (Bjørn Petter Løfall)

17:50 Hvordan blir data fra dugnadsportalen fritt tilgjengelig for medlemmer av Telemark Botanisk Forening (og andre). Åpen publisering av artsdata i Artskart og GBIF. Fortløpende presentasjon av progresjon og resultater fra dette dugnadsprosjektet i et dynamisk kart (Dag Endresen)

18:00 Demonstrasjon og grundig gjennomgang av dugnadsportalen og veilednings-manualen (Christian Svindseth)

18:15 Spørsmål og diskusjon.

18:30 Praktisk demonstrasjon og veiledning i bruk av dugnadsportalen.

19:30 Avsluttning

 

The Cultural Heritage Mediascapes project will deepen our understanding of how digitization and participatory models are transforming knowledge practices in museums and archives. The Mediascapes start-up meeting was in September 2016 and the project will continue through to the end of 2018.

http://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/projects/mediascapes/

http://www.gbif.no/news/2016/mediascapes-startup.html

Read more about the launch of the early prototype Volunteer Portal (in June 2014) here:
https://dagendresen.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/natural-history-citizen-science-crowdsourcing/

 

Crowdsourcing at the Natural History Museum in Oslo (2014-06-01)

 

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Telemark Botanical Society, UiO : Department of Education and GBIF Norway, UiO : Natural History Museum in Oslo
Tags: GBIF, Citizen science, Telemark, Volunteer portal
Published Feb. 22, 2017 10:46 AM - Last modified May 5, 2017 12:57 PM
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