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iDigBio<https://www.idigbio.org/> is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually 19-20 September 2023.
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. BioDigiCon will address essential content for those working at the interface of physical specimens and the generation of digital data from those specimens.
Open Call for Lightning Presentations from near and far to address innovative protocols, resources, tools, strategies, etc.
TCN Representatives: Presentations will not be required this year, but they are encouraged.
Abstract submission for all will open the week of July 10th.
BioDigiCon is free to attend but registration is required.
Stay tuned for updates and announcements in the coming weeks.
If you have any questions, please contact Jill Goodwin, iDigBio Conference Manager at jgoodwin(a)floridamuseum.ufl.edu<mailto:jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu>.
Jillian Goodwin
iDigBio Conference Manager
Florida Museum of Natural History
508-887-6043
www.idigbio.org<https://www.idigbio.org/>
