The mission statement of the Findability Working Group is to:
1) establish formal guidelines for developing persistent, informative identifiers of tomography data;
2) determine repository minimum standards that can ensure short-term and long-term discovery; and
3) transform dataset findability by integrating the implementation of identifiers and repository guidelines for use by data archives.
As part of its mission, this Working Group will also be tasked with addressing questions about archiving and storage of the data and metadata, for which it will develop a scalable system of best practices that can be shared with labs around the world according to their available resources.
Members
| Last | First | Institution |
| Berardini | Tanya | MorphoBank (via Pheonix Bioinformatics, Inc.) |
| Boyer | Doug | Duke |
| Brierley | Nick | Diondo |
| Brusatte | Steve | The University of Edinburgh |
| Chase | Morgan | American Museum of Natural History |
| Croghan | Jasmine | Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences |
| De Boever | Wesley | Tescan |
| Depp | Randi | The University of Akron |
| Engels | Sandra | Volume Graphics |
| Field | Daniel | University of Cambridge – Cambridge Biotomography Centre |
| Gray | Jaimi | University of Florida |
| Gurberg | Zach | MedLlumine |
| Hill | Jennifer J. | Smithsonian Institution of Natural History |
| Hurdle | Kelsi | NYIT |
| Kay | David | University of Oklahoma |
| Kley | Nathan | Stony Brook University |
| Krause | Amanda | Carnegie Mellon |
| Leavey | Alice | University College London |
| Lewis | Patrick | Sam Houston State University |
| Luck | Annina | Volume Graphics |
| Mahlow | Kristen | Micro-CT Laboratory, Museum für Naturkunde |
| Marchant | Stephen | MedLlumine |
| Marugán-Lobón | Jesús | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| McLean | Bryan | University of North Carolina Greensburough |
| Perrine | Susan | Penn State |
| Porri | Teresa | Cornell University |
| Sadier | Alexa | University of California Los Angeles |
| Santana | Sharlene | Burke Museum of Natural History |
| Thomas | Dana | University of Texas |
| Watanabe | Aki | NYIT |
| Wilberg | Eric | Stony Brook University |
Recent Blog Posts by the Findability Working Group
- Member Spotlight: Dr. Julie Winchester
Hello! I’m Dr. Julie Winchester (ORCID), and I’m the Technical Director for the MorphoSource 3D Data Repository at Duke University. MorphoSource supports NoCTURN and the wider tomography community by providing data curation, archiving, sharing, and discovery. Along with Dr. Doug… Read more: Member Spotlight: Dr. Julie Winchester - MorphoSource 101 & Introducing aleph-r3f, a new viewer for 3D models
By: Dr. Julie Winchester, Dr. Doug Boyer, and Jocelyn Triplett MorphoSource is a publicly accessible web data repository that allows museums, researchers, and scholars to upload, archive, curate, and share 3D data (as well as 2D images and video) representing… Read more: MorphoSource 101 & Introducing aleph-r3f, a new viewer for 3D models - Findability Working Group Takes Over the NoCTURN Network Blog This December!
The NoCTURN Findability Working Group is excited to announce that we are taking over the NoCTURN Blog for the month of December! This special takeover is the second in a series of dedicated blog takeovers, and we look forward to providing… Read more: Findability Working Group Takes Over the NoCTURN Network Blog This December! - Question Box: How long does it take for my entry into the global map to appear on the map?Answer: The Findability working group is in the process of updating map information—including entries submitted through the NoCTURN website. This work is happening behind the scenes on an ongoing basis as part of a major update to visual organization of… Read more: Question Box: How long does it take for my entry into the global map to appear on the map?