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is free, and all events will be pre-recorded or recorded live for asynchronous viewing to suit your time zone or schedule. Registration is free but required.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">Register here:</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_2022-2Dbiodigicon-2Dtickets-2D367104919697&d=DwQF-g&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=-DeN3HZj0Hb0vKtqmNM6xJyvWlG-EW6_J4YBXE1_ai4&m=ehzZAc-WWlxAsQvJ1RVCfqNgrcFEccnVRQDUuTn77OzMvdiyBpY-WjEkjulABjC6&s=WoXtDLntla1QUi5Y2wITefoojp1GYOaQhfcV9Gocia0&e=" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; line-height:normal">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">Lightning Rounds:</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> Up to 30 rounds will be offered.
Here is a sampling:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">A set of four rounds focusing on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700">comparing popular collections management systems</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400"> (CMS) for folks deciding which CMS
to adopt, determining whether to switch from a custom CMS, adopt a new CMS, or just to learn more of these options. Talks will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A. Included are:</span></p>
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<li style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><span class="" style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Arctos, with Emily Braker, University of Colorado</span></span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Emu, with Larry Gall, Yale University</span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Specify, with Randy Singer, University of Michigan </span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="" style="font-weight:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Symbiota, with Katie Pearson, California Polytechnic State University</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">A set of five rounds focusing on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700">digitization activities at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">. </span></p>
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<span style="color:#000000">Coordinating digitization at NMNH, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sylvia Orli</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A completely digitized collection – what does digitization maintenance look like for NMNH botany, Sylvia Orli</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Digitizing the Odonata, Torsten Dikow</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Creating an Informatics and Data Science Center, Rebecca Snyder</span></p>
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<span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">New generation digitization of specimens in situ, Holly Little</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700">Individual lightning rounds</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400"> will
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Extending the model for digitized data, Ely Wallis</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); color:rgb(0,0,0)">Software-based capture of 2D barcodes on duplicate herbarium sheets during digitization & subsequent data discovery via GBIF, including</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); color:rgb(0,0,0)"> a
sampl</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); color:rgb(0,0,0)">e script to adapt and reuse, David Shorthouse & Shannon Asencio, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Government of Canada</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Digitization as art, Zach Randall, Florida Museum of Natural History</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), Jorrit Poelen, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A workflow for cleaning </span><span style="font-style:italic; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Notes from Nature</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> data transcriptions, Peter Oboyski, Essig Museum</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Digitizing the CSIRO Collections, Australia, Nicole Fisher, CSIRO</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">An open, continuously updated Fern Tree of Life, Joel Nitta,
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">10 minute Q&A with U.S. National Science Foundation representatives, Steve Ellis</span></p>
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