Workshop 8 recap: Data management

This two day workshop was co-organized by Katja Seltmann of UC Santa Barbara, Erika Tucker of the Milwaukee Public Museum, Izzy Hill of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Hollis Woodard of the University of California, Riverside, and focused on applying biodiversity data management best practices to native bee inventory, survey, and monitoring data.

Day 1 speakers were: (links go to recorded presentations on our YouTube channel)

• Katja Seltmann on the data life cycle

• Deb Paul on Darwin Core

• Abby Benson on GBIF

• Amber Budden on DataOne

• Clare Maffei on Discover Life

• Chuck Harp on SCAN

• Andrew Johnston on Symbiota

• Additionally, we featured a playlist of talks on managing different types of native bee data.

Day 2 speakers were: (links go to recorded presentations on our YouTube channel)

• Libby Ellwood on the importance of reproducibility

• Cyndy Parr on data sharing policies and opportunities

• James Hung on iNaturalist and native bees

• Tom Philippi on data management at the National Park Service

• David Bloom on the attribution of digital data

• Erika Tucker on the responsible use of museum specimens

• David Bloom (again!) on Darwin Core geospatial standards

• Elizabeth Crisfield on the importance of a bee trait database

• Jens Kattge on TRY and OpenTraits

• Chris Taliga on trait data in USDA PLANTS

• Jorrit Poelen on Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)

• Deb Paul of TaxonWorks and the Catalogue of Life

• Gerry Moore on taxonomic data in USDA PLANTS

• Paige Chesshire on nomenclature cleaning of native bee data sets in R

• John Ascher on a taxon name catalog for native bees and ITIS

• Zach Portman on the importance of vouchering bee specimens

• Gretchen LeBuhn on the importance of vouchering plant specimens

• Additionally, we featured a playlist of talks on native bee-related data management and resources.

Many of these presenters opted to publish their video to Zenodo to obtain a citable DOI for the information shared. We have three Zenodo data sets based on the copyright license chosen by participating presenters. They are:

• US National Native Bee Monitoring Research Coordination Network Data Management Workshop: Public Domain Videos (10.5281/zenodo.7868217)

• US National Native Bee Monitoring Research Coordination Network Data Management Workshop: CC-BY Videos (10.5281/zenodo.7868391)

• US National Native Bee Monitoring Research Coordination Network Data Management Workshop: CC-BY-NC Videos (10.5281/zenodo.10286773)