MOBILISE workshop on digitization of (Italian) museum collections

MOBILISE is organizing a workshop on digitization of (Italian) museum collections in Padua, Italy 12-13 September.

MOBILISE WG5 and WG2 are organizing a joint meeting in Italy, in the city of Padova, on September 12th-13th. The two days meeting is planned for facilitating the transfer of technology and knowledge between the MOBILISE/DiSSCo community and the researchers starting a major digitization effort in Italy in 2023-2025, funded by the Italian Government in the framework of the National Resilience and Resistence Plan (PNRR). The final aim is to increase the efficiency of digitisation and data mobilisation in a national project across small, medium and large collections.

 

Details on the event:
Italy is an interesting - and interesting - test bed for digitization efforts, since it has ca. 450 different institutions which host natural history collections. These differ for size (from a few large Natural History Museums, each hosting 10 million specimens or more, to very small ones, with a few thousand specimens), administration (University, Regional, Municipal, Ecclesiastic, or other private institutions), amount of personnel, accessibility, etc. Thus, several different approaches for the digitization of the Italian Natural History Cultural Heritage are necessary.
The workshop will have a first plenary session in which the draft Italian plan will be presented, and in which several other European experiences will be reviewed. Then there will be 4 parallel sessions, each devoted to a different topic: digitization workflows, standards and protocols for digital imaging, mobilization and aggregation of existing data, digital platforms for specimen data. At the end, a plenary session will wrap up the results.
The main outputs of the workshop will be:
  • an effective exchange of technology and knowledge between the MOBILISE/DISSCo community and the Italian researchers;
  • an analysis of the complex and fragmented Italian situation, addressing the issues which could be more impactful on the digitization of Natural History Collections;
  • the establishment of a strengthened cooperation between Italian Natural History Museums, the DISSCo community, and the GBIF in order to properly publish data in open and FAIR format.
 
Tentative agenda
Day 1
9:30
Opening ceremony
10:00
Plenary session
  • Natural History Collections: the Italian landscape 
  • Digitization in the country: state of the art
  • The Digitization Infrastructure of the National Biodiversity Future Center
11:00
Coffe Break
11:30
Plenary session
  • Review of ongoing European experiences in Digitization of Natural History Collections
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
Parallel sessions
  • Digitization workflows
  • Digital platforms
16:00
Coffe break
16:30
Parallel sessions
  • Digitization workflows
  • Digital platforms
18:00
End of day 1
 
20:00
Social Dinner in the center of Padua
Day 2
9:30
Parallel sessions
  • Protocols and standards for digital imaging
  • Specimen data and the GBIF
11:00
Coffe break
11:30
Parallel sessions
  • Protocols and standards for digital imaging
  • Specimen data and the GBIF
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Plenary session
  • Report from each working group
  • Wrapping up
Published Aug. 24, 2022 4:58 PM - Last modified Aug. 24, 2022 5:05 PM