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Greetings All,<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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From iDigBio: You are invited to this year’s <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodigicon-2022" title="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodigicon-2022" moz-do-not-send="true"> <b>Biodiversity Digitization Conference
(BioDigiCon 2022)</b></a>, an all-virtual event scheduled for
<b>27-29 September 2022</b>. </span>
<p class="x_hv-current-cursor" style="font-family:"Times New
Roman"; font-size:medium"> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Registration is
free through Eventbrite: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697</a>.</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Although the
agenda is still in progress, this year’s conference will
feature:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">a
session focused on data quality issues and solutions organized
by leaders from the world’s major aggregators, including GBIF,
iDigBio, ALA, and CRIA,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">a
4-part series comparing and contrasting leading collections
and data management systems (Arctos, Emu, Specify, and
Symbiota) with time for your questions, and</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">several
lightning rounds featuring digitization tools and techniques.</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Also included
will be extended sessions on</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">image
and data storage,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">digitization
workflows using Symbiota software,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">issues
related to the Digital Extended Specimen,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">methods
dealing with biocultural issues and the use of Traditional
Knowledge (TK) labels,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">an
exploration of digitization sustainability strategies at the
institutional level,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">consideration
of current collaborations between GBIF, ALA, and iDigBio for
aligning pipelines benefiting data mobilization, and</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">reports
from major digitization projects funded by the U.S National
Science Foundation.</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Lightning
Talk Space is Limited: </b></span></p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">We have issued
an open call for 10-minute lightning round talks focused on
novel or successful digitization techniques, data mobilization
strategies, tools, protocols, workflows, and the like. These
rounds are filling fast. </span></p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please email
Conference Manager Jill Goodwin (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu">jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</a>)
right away if you are interested</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> in part</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">icipating.</span></p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
- Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison
- Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois
-- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Chair 2021-2022
-- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment
-- Species File Group and Events <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://speciesfilegroup.org">https://speciesfilegroup.org</a></pre>
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