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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gehen Sie zu SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you
going to SPNHC 2016? It's in Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25,
2016.<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Folks from iDigBio (<span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.idigbio.org/">https://www.idigbio.org/</a></span>),
RBGE (<span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.rbge.org.uk/">http://www.rbge.org.uk/</a></span>),
and UO (<span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://uoregon.edu/">https://uoregon.edu/</a></span>)
are convening a Symposium at SPNHC 2016. With this email, we'd
like to invite you to submit an abstract for our consideration.<br>
<br>
<b>Symposium:</b> An International Conversation on Mobilizing
Natural History Collections (NHC) Data and Integrating Data for
Research.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<br>
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<ol>
<li>digitization (including imaging) lessons learned and
outstanding questions,</li>
<li>new and emerging technologies/models, and cross-discipline
collaborations for digitization and georeferencing, and</li>
<li>collections data-in-action.</li>
</ol>
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. <br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract</b> <b>submission deadline is 15
March 2016.<br>
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><b>Note Well:</b>
SPNHC 2016 local organizers are using an
online-abstract-submission system and abstract template form you
can find here: <span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page15.html">http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page15.html</a></span><br>
P</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">lease note in
your submission that the abstract is intended for the<b>
International Conversation Symposium </b>and indicate which
track or tracks your talk will address. Please use k</span>ey
tags: #Digitization Lessons Learned, #New Technology, New
Strategies, and / or #Collections Data-In-Action.<span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">You
may direct any specific questions regarding the </span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">International Conversation</span>
Symposium to session conveners Deb Paul (<span
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dpaul@fsu.edu">dpaul@fsu.edu</a></span>),
Elspeth Haston (<span class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:e.haston@rbge.org.uk">e.haston@rbge.org.uk</a></span>),
or Brian Westra (<span class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bwestra@uoregon.edu">bwestra@uoregon.edu</a></span>)</span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p>Vielen Dank und
Alles Gute für 2016,<br>
Many thanks and Happy New Year!,<br>
Deb, Elspeth, and Brian<br>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Please see the SPNHC
symposia page for a detailed abstract </span><a
href="http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"></span></a><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html">http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html</a></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">.<br>
<small>(please excuse cross-postings)</small><br>
</span>
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-- Upcoming iDigBio Events <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.idigbio.org/calendar">https://www.idigbio.org/calendar</a>
-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
850-644-6366</pre>
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