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<b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; color: black;"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="https://www.idigbio.org/" shash="tklunGYZ1LqW9qiEFDLeSVotct7aaGGsmNFd19c5kd+K1vYY3ELwOxMc9F8+j1gB07Q4bbU0KXfbOuLKbaADvnmB2rNo1o9+B28CVEFN+aw3qE/OgQUkc2XIaMM6q81c30eFGf1t2onXHqdTXD35nfjE3Wr3R5xNCK5A9Ssyrws=" title="https://www.idigbio.org/" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="LPlnk281547">iDigBio</a>
is pleased to invite you to this year’s <span class="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(94, 50, 124);">Biodiversity Digitization Conference (</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; color: blue;"><span data-markjs="true" class="x_x_x_x_x_markjslcdm4gn" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(94, 50, 124);">BioDigiCon</span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(94, 50, 124);">)</span> to
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<span class="x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; color: black;">The 2023 event will focus on data generation and mobilization with special emphasis on presentations,
hands-on workshops, and lively discussions that provide training, resource sharing, and workforce enhancement. Major topics will include digitization strategies for ensuring data quality, digitizing in support of the digital extended specimen, lightning talks
by digitization practitioners from around the globe, updates from U.S. National Science Foundation-funded digitization projects, image and data storage, digitization workflows, and expanding biodiversity information through the digitization of trait data.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="x_x_x_x_x_markjslcdm4gn x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">BioDigiCon</span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0"> </span>will
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