This workshop focuses broadly on models for biodiversity data mobilization. Learn about models you can use to image your museum specimens and capture the data, in ways that align with biodiversity data standards and established protocols. What models available now can facilitate digitization of natural history collections data and data use? Where do we find these models? Do they incorporate outreach and collaboration? How do these models give researchers faster access to more and better fit-for-use data? Do researchers, custodians of biodiversity data, and citizen scientists have the skills needed to create, use, and re-use the data?

Among the examples we will examine are:

Example 1: What is the Data Carpentry model (http://datacarpentry.org/) and how would you implement it in your community? Participants will experience a presentation followed by a short hands-on demo of the biodiversity informatics skills needed by students, researchers, and those managing biodiversity data.

Example 2: Broaden the community of data transcribers by using new platforms for engaging citizens in biodiversity collection data mobilization. We will examine models and materials used to transcribe data and capture images for several ongoing online crowd-based projects, including BIOSPEX (http://biospex.org/), Imaging Blitzes, and WeDigBio (https://www.wedigbio.org/).

If you have a biodiversity data mobilization model to share, we would like to add your talk or demo to this workshop.