Check out talks related to Fossil Insect Collaboration, iDigPaleo (and our other collaboration, ePANDDA) at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver in the session Fossil Specimens 0’s and 1’s: Databases, Standards, & Mobilization:
Talia Karim – Evolution of a database: From Excel to Specify and the era of modern data publishing
Susan Butts – Data use and quality as related to iDigPaleo
Shelley James – Paleobiology specimen data and the role of data aggregators – The iDigBio perspective
Mark Uhen – Integrating paleontological and neontological data across time and space
Jon Lauters – Linking data silos via fuzzy matching algorithm