[Aqualist] UPDATE: Upcoming online training and workshop - NEOTOMA(TILIA)/OCTOPUS and Pollen Data Analysis - 15-17 July 2020

[Simon Haberle]

Dear Colleagues,

This is an update on the advertised NEOTOMA(TILIA)/OCTOPUS and Pollen Data Analysis workshop which will be held on Wednesday 15 July to Friday 17th July 2020. The workshop will provide training, discussion and decision making on the current and future state of palaeoecological data management in Australia – with a focus one using the global NEOTOMA Database. This workshop is open to all interested academic staff, students and practitioners who produce or are engaged with palaeoecological data (focus on pollen and charcoal datasets, but others also welcome).

Venue: Online via Zoom
Coordinator: Professor Simon Haberle
Facilitators: Professor Eric Grimm, Professor Jessica Blois, Dr. Henry Munack, Dr. Tibi Coilean

MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTER HERE Registration page: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/neotomatiliaoctopus-and-pollen-data-analysis-registration-98975946721


NEOTOMA(TILIA)/OCTOPUS and Pollen Data Analysis - Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th July, 2020

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Wednesday 15th July - Day 1:

Introduction to the Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Tilia

8.00-8.30am
- Introductions: Gather, who is here, where do they work, what is their proxy type?
- Overview of the plan for the workshop

8:30-9:30am
- Overview of Neotoma

9:30-10:45am
-  Show-and-tell: Analyses: APIs and R data analysis [no participant practice, just demonstration]

10:45-11:15am - BREAK

11:15-12:15pm
-  Overview of Tilia
-  Discuss the reasons why we use Tilia and the power of having clean data
-  Review the different components of Tilia (data tab, different metadata tabs)
-  What's not covered: extra steps for becoming a steward

12:15-12:30pm
-  For people attending Day 2: Sandbox time to install Tilia

Homework
-  Watch Tilia tutorial videos

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Thursday 16th July - Day 2:

Morning Session : All about using Tilia to format data for upload

8.00 – 10.00am
-  Entering data and site/collection unit metadata, validating these data

10.00 - 10:30am - BREAK

10:30 – 12:30pm
-  Entering publications, contacts, and new taxa and validating against the database

Homework
-  Participants prepare datasets for uploading to Neotoma, either their own datasets or demonstration datasets provided

12:30 – 2.00pm - BREAK

Afternoon Session: OCTOPUS database, Indo-Pac compilation

2.00 - 3:30pm
- Welcome and Indo-Pac compilation outline
- Introduction to OCTOPUS database (and it's planned relationship to Neotoma DB)
- Pollen data survey - Survey results, Interpretation and Discussion

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Friday 17th July - Day 3

Morning Session: Age models

8.00 – 9:30am
- Follow up from Day 2 - what stumbling blocks did people encounter when preparing their own datasets?

9:30 – 11.00am
-  How Neotoma handles time
-  Show-and-tell: Analyses: Constructing age models using Bacon and clam [no participant practice, just demonstration]
-  Entering data: Geochronological data and age models
-  How to store Bacon/clam age models in Neotoma

11.00 - 11:30am - BREAK

11:30 – 12:30pm
-  Play time: Participants prepare age models/integrate them into their own or demonstration datasets

12:30 – 2.00pm - BREAK

Afternoon Session: Future of Indo-Pac compilation - Strategy & Development

2.00 - 3:30pm
- Open session devoted (but not limited) to …
* Identification of data sources,
* Defining priority sites,
* Establishing responsibilities,
* Staking off implementation time frame
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Simon Haberle
Director, School of Culture, History & Language
Professor of Natural History

ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
Baldessin Precinct Building
CHL Administration Office
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600
+61 2 6125 5125 (ph)  0424453861 (mob)