Hi Everyone,

The First iDigBio Train the Trainers Georeferencing Workshop is almost here! Monday - Friday October 8 - 12, 9 am - 5 pm.

Workshop Agenda Wiki: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/GWG_Train_the_Trainers_Workshop
Attend Remotely (see instructions in PS below): http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/geotrain/

The workshop will cover tools and techniques used to correctly interpret textual location data into spatial descriptions that can be used in mapping and analyses. Participants will learn the fundamentals of georeferencing best practices through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, including paper maps, the MaNIS Georeferencing Calculator, GEOLocate, BioGeomancer and online exercises. Special attention will be paid to the specific and unique georeferencing needs and workflows of the TCNs and their digitization activities.

On behalf of the iDigBio Georeferencing Working Group and all of us at iDigBio - Hope to see you there!

Deb
PS: For those of you new to Adobe Connect, please be sure to log in to Adobe Connect 20 minutes before the session of interest so that you have time to figure out the software before the meeting begins. For more help see: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing
HINTS: Use Headphones, Mute your Microphone, Firefox (usually) works better than Chrome with Adobe Connect.
*Please excuse cross-postings for those of you that belong to multiple lists.

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Deborah Paul
User Services, iDigBio
Institute for Digital Information, iDigInfo
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32308
850-644-6366