Webinars
Please join us for virtual training on these dates. Any and all staff, students, administrators, volunteers, or other personnel are welcome to participate. Please contact the project manager for information about participation.

Upcoming webinars:

Webinar recordings:

Data editing in the CCH2 portal

Friday, October 26th, 2018, 12:00 noon PT
In this session we discussed how to create an account, log in to the CCH2 portal, and use the functions of the Data Editor Control Panel including editing occurrence records and adding annotations. A recording of this webinar can be viewed by clicking the button below.

Administrator Control Panel in CCH2

Friday, November 8th, 2018, 12:00 noon PT
This webinar covered functions available on the Administrator Control Panel of the CCH2 portal including verifying/viewing edits, duplicate clustering, downloading a backup file, and uploading data.

Data cleaning tools (non-CAP webinar)

This webinar was conducted by the Anne Barber, project manager of the MAM Digitization Project and member of the Symbiota Working Group, in April 2018. The webinar covers the three main data cleaning tools available in Symbiota: the catalog number duplicate tool, geographic cleaning tool, and taxonomic cleaning tool.

Data Entry in the CCH2 Portal

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, 10:00 AM PT
In this webinar, the project manager demonstrated how to transcribe specimen labels from herbarium images in the CCH2 portal and discussed best practices in doing so.

Data Cleaning in CCH2

Monday, April 8th, 2019, 2:00 PM PT
This webinar walks through basic usage of the main data cleaning tools in the CCH2: duplicate catalog numbers, geographic cleaning tools, and taxonomic cleaning tools.
Introduction to GBIF
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019, 1:00 PM PT
U.S. GBIF node manager Abby Benson led this webinar to introduce CCH2 participants to the global data aggregator, GBIF. Abby explained the purpose and general functioning of GBIF, including how the data are aggregated, what types of data are aggregated, and who uses these data.

The WeDigBio Event: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections

Wednesday, September 18th, 2019, 10:30 AM PT
Libby Ellwood, phenological researcher and one of the founders of WeDigBio, joined the CAP network to discuss the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections in this webinar. WeDigBio is an annual event held every October in which volunteers across the globe engage with natural history collections through special events and online digitization expeditions. Libby discussed how to get involved in this event, and she showed available resources for event hosts and educators.

Georeferencing in CCH2

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020, 2:00 PM PT
This webinar describes the concept and process of georeferencing and focuses on demonstrating georeferencing tools in the CAP data portal, CCH2 (cch2.org). We provide examples of how to georeference certain localities, and when not to georeference.

Engaging Public Participation in Collections Digitization

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 2:00 PM PT
This webinar explores why and how natural history collections can engage the public in digitization activities, providing insight from the public engagement experience of Austin Mast (SERNEC, WeDigFLPlants) and Katie Pearson (California Phenology Network).