[tdwg] SPNHC 2016 Symposium on Mobilizing NHC Data - Call for Abstracts from iDigBio, RBGE, and UO
Deborah Paul
dpaul at fsu.edu
Tue Jan 5 19:07:19 CET 2016
Hi Everyone!
Gehen Sie zu SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you going to SPNHC 2016? It's in
Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25, 2016.
Folks from iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), RBGE
(http://www.rbge.org.uk/), and UO (https://uoregon.edu/) are convening a
Symposium at SPNHC 2016. With this email, we'd like to invite you to
submit an abstract for our consideration.
*Symposium:* An International Conversation on Mobilizing Natural History
Collections (NHC) Data and Integrating Data for Research.
Natural History Collection (NHC) data are being mobilized all over the
world. Recent preliminary worldwide survey data suggests the trend is
growing. As digitization begins to become an every-day part of
collections, many compelling issues vie for attention. For example,
cost, prioritization, sustainability, and rates of digitization are four
such issues. And, many uses for NHC data are well-known and fairly
well-understood. But issues exist with the data, and there is still much
legacy data to be digitally captured – before it can be shared with the
world’s researchers. We invite presentations from anyone in the
collections and biodiversity informatics community who is involved in
the mobilization and use of NHC data. We envision an assortment of talks
covering three areas:
1. digitization (including imaging) lessons learned and outstanding
questions,
2. new and emerging technologies/models, and cross-discipline
collaborations for digitization and georeferencing, and
3. collections data-in-action.
Our speakers may be, for example, those doing the digitization and
mobilization of the data; museum collection administrators actively
incorporating digitization into their museum’s mission and vision;
computer, information, and library scientists supporting digitization
and research efforts; education and outreach staff working with citizen
scientists to digitize and georeference; or those using collections data
in research.
*Abstract* *submission deadline is 15 March 2016.
**Note Well:* SPNHC 2016 local organizers are using an
online-abstract-submission system and abstract template form you can
find here: http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page15.html
Please note in your submission that the abstract is intended for
the*International Conversation Symposium *and indicate which track or
tracks your talk will address. Please use key tags: #Digitization
Lessons Learned, #New Technology, New Strategies, and / or #Collections
Data-In-Action.
You may direct any specific questions regarding the International
Conversation Symposium to session conveners Deb Paul (dpaul at fsu.edu),
Elspeth Haston (e.haston at rbge.org.uk), or Brian Westra (bwestra at uoregon.edu)
Vielen Dank und Alles Gute für 2016,
Many thanks and Happy New Year!,
Deb, Elspeth, and Brian
Please see the SPNHC symposia page for a detailed abstract
<http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html>http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html.
(please excuse cross-postings)
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-- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar
-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
850-644-6366
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