WS 1 - Photogrammetry: Digital data collection that anyone can do
Matthews, Neffra. Resource Technology Section, Bureau of Land Management, Denver. neffra_matthews@blm.gov
Breithaupt, Brent. Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land Management. Brent_Breithaupt@blm.gov
Falkingham, Peter. Brown University & Royal Veterinary College London. pfalkingham@rvc.ac.uk
Pond, Stuart. University of Southampton. stu@stupond.com
TIME: Monday, September 24, 14:00 - 17:15
The general concept of the workshop is to provide an overview of photogrammetry and requirements of image capture. The workshop will begin with a discussion of the basics of stereo photography and what makes photogrammetry work; followed by an overview of the photogrammetric process, camera/equipment, simple to complex project designs, types of software, importance of camera calibration, examples of project layouts and results, and what can be done with the data.
The hands-on part of the workshop will allow participants to use their own cameras and iPads to collect digital data using photogrammetry of specimens from the collections at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and then a walk-through of some of the easier processing software programs that can be utilized; allowing participants to actually see some of the processed data from their photogrammetric work.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras, laptop computers, and iPads.
Please consider installing the following programs on your computer, so you can use them during the workshop. They are all free ware, or a free version may be downloaded (with restrictions):
www.agisoft.ru/products - both StereoScan and PhotoScan
meshlab.sourceforge.net/ - MeshLab
www.danielgm.net/cc/ - CloudCompare
www.123dapp.com/catch - 123D Catch
for iPad 2 or 3 and iPhone
www.123dapp.com/catch - 123D Catch
meshlab.sourceforge.net/ - MeshLab
WS 2 - Editing Wikipedia as a way to extend the reach of a digital collection
Mietchen, Daniel. Universität Jena. daniel.mietchen@EvoMRI
TIME: Monday, September 24, 15:45 - 17:15
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources of information, including on paleontological topics. It is thus in the interest of palaeontologists to familiarize themselves with the process behind Wikipedia articles, and with possibilities to engage with that. To facilitate this, Wikipedia workshops will take place at Digital Fossil 2012. In part I on Monday, a general introduction to Wikipedia, its sister projects and the basic technical and policy issues will be discussed. In part II on Wednesday, WikiProject Palaeontology will be presented as the main structure for creating, structuring and curating paleontological content on the English Wikipedia. The workshops will be interactive from the start on, so as to encourage participation by the audience.
WS 3 - WikiProject Palaeontology, the main structure for creating, structuring and curating paleontological content on the English Wikipedia
Mietchen, Daniel. Universität Jena. daniel.mietchen@EvoMRI
TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 16:30 - 18:00
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources of information, including on paleontological topics. It is thus in the interest of palaeontologists to familiarize themselves with the process behind Wikipedia articles, and with possibilities to engage with that. To facilitate this, Wikipedia workshops will take place at Digital Fossil 2012. In part I on Monday, a general introduction to Wikipedia, its sister projects and the basic technical and policy issues will be discussed. In part II on Wednesday, WikiProject Palaeontology will be presented as the main structure for creating, structuring and curating paleontological content on the English Wikipedia. The workshops will be interactive from the start on, so as to encourage participation by the audience.
WS 4 - Microscale in digitizing – applying high resolution 3D surface texture analysis. (Talk with workshop)
Schulz, Ellen
Biozentrum Grindel, Universität Hamburg. ellen.schulz@uni-hamburg.de
Kaiser, Thomas
Biozentrum Grindel, Universität Hamburg. thomas.kaiser@uni-hamburg.de
TIME: Wednesday, September 16, 16:15 - 18:00
High resolution 3D surface texture analysis is a powerful tool for reconstructing the diets of extinct and extant animals. Basic aspects of the technique will be presented. (see also presentation by Kaiser)
The workshop is intended for researchers who would like to learn more about sampling design, sampling preparation, and surface measurement selection especially interested in quantifying 3D surface textures. An introduction of the software Mountains Map is given. The 3D dental area surface texture analysis is demonstrated. Standardized parameters of ISO 25178, 12781, motif, furrow, and texture direction analysis are calculated. The main focus is set on exploring significance, relevance and meaning of parameters describing complex surface textures.
WS 5 - Minidome workshop
Proesmans, Marc. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. marc.proesmans@esat.kuleuven.be
TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 12:00 - 13:00
WS 6 - GBIF-Workshop BioCASe/GeoCASe
Falko Glöckler
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. falko.gloeckler@mfn-berlin.de
Martin Pluta
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. martin.pluta@mfn-berlin.de
Holetschek, Jörg
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. j.holetschek@bgbm.org
Kroupa, Alexander
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. alexander.kroupa@mfn-berlin.de
TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 14:10 - 16:30
GBIF and BioCASe share the same philosophy of open access to data resources. All software developed by BioCASe is published under a public license. Data providers installing a BioCASe wrapper accept that they in effect publish their data on the Internet. Neither GBIF nor BioCASe exclude others to build specialised portals using the data sources and making use of the software and services developed for the public domain, as long as the provisions made by the data providers are respected. One example of such a portal is the web-platform GeoCASe (Geosciences Collection Access Service, www.geocase.eu).
This workshop will give an overview on the architecture of biodiversity networks, the basic principles and the standards used. Furthermore the web-platform GeoCASe is presented and the extension of the ABCD schema (Access to Biological Collection Data), the so-called ABCD-EFG (Extension For Geosciences). This extension is for paleobiological data that are accompanied by indispensable, geoscientific information (i.e. stratigraphy and taphonomy) and have therefore specific requirements.
This workshop will give an overview on the architecure of biodiversity networks, the basic principles and the standards used.
WS 7 - SPIERS and VAXML– Demonstration and Tutorial
Sutton, Mark. Department of Earth Science& Engineering, Imperial College London. m.sutton@imperial.ac.uk
TIME: Wednesday, September 16, 9:00 - 12:00
SPIERS (Serial Palaeontological Image Editing and Rendering System) is the software package developed for part of the Herefordshire Lagerstätte research project, and has been used to produce many high-profile virtual-fossil based publications. While initially developed for physical-optical tomography, it is equally well suited for any tomographic data, including CT.
SPIERS is a isosuface-based reconstruction suite that comprises a registration (alignment) tool, a slice-by-slice editor, and a visualisation tool. The latter tool, SPIERSview, also acts as a general-purpose viewer for VAXML files (see also DigitalFossil 2012 presentation on VAXML).
The SPIERS design philosophy assumes that users will be more interested in extracting maximal information via careful work on a specimen than in quick visualisation, but the package nonetheless includes a range of tools to speed reconstruction where possible. SPIERS is free software (downloadable from www.spiers-software.org), and is avaialble for Mac or Windows, the latter in 32- or 64-bit versions.
This workshop will demonstrate the key aspects of SPIERS, walking attendees through the reconstruction process from raw images, both from serial-sectioning and from CT, through to a final-virtual fossil model. The construction of VAXML datasets will also be demonstrated. Attendees may find it useful to read the SPIERS manuals (avaialble from www.spiers-software.org) in advance, all this is not of course compulsory.
Attendants are invited to bring their own laptops with SPIERS installed!
