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?

Several examples will be explored. During this portion of the workshop, we will examine ways to broaden the community of data transcribers by using new platforms for engaging citizens in biodiversity collection data mobilization. We will demo and work with 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/).