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Fw: Register for this Webinar to Learn About BCoN's BIOFAIR Data Network Project
by Bentley, Andrew Charles 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

BCoN Webinar: BIOFAIR Data Network Listening Sessions – A Summary Date: November 13, 2024 Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern Registration link: https://burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ji_RzxJDSPCob29SAH5CZA Intended audience: * Collections and curatorial professionals across natural history disciplines * Biodiversity researchers, students, and individuals working on or interested in issues of data sharing, management, and integration The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), in collaboration with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), held a series of domain-focused virtual listening sessions over the summer to engage an expansive set of stakeholders toward Building an Integrated, Open, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (BIOFAIR) Data Network. The sessions convened stakeholders from the federal agency<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/federal-agencies-session/>, genetic and genomic data<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/genetic-genomic-data-session/>, One Health<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/one-health-session/>, ecological data<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/ecological-data-session/>, climate and environmental data<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/climate-environmental-data-session/>, and biodiversity informatics<https://bcon.aibs.org/our-work/current/biodiversity-informatics-session/> communities with the goal of initiating a collaborative and accessible partnership towards an integrative and expanded data network. The final summary report<https://bcon.aibs.org/2024/10/09/summary-report-listening-sessions/> focusing on the areas of unity across the six virtual Listening Sessions is now available. The steering committee is holding a webinar on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM ET to discuss this report and to gather additional feedback to inform preparations for the upcoming interdisciplinary workshop (February 2025) to develop recommendations and create a roadmap towards a FAIR, open, and integrated data network. ___________________ Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Director of Community Programs, American Institute of Biological Sciences Executive Director, Natural Science Collections Alliance This message is confidential and should only be read by its intended recipients. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies.

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Fwd: FW: ZooMu Network RCN Kickoff!
by Stan Blum 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

For US subscribers in particular, but all are welcome. Please excuse cross-posting. ---- The *Zoo-Museum Network (ZooMu)* is having a kickoff webinar in Dec! Please see info below. This is the 5-year, NSF-funded RCN to build a network of zoo and museum professionals. This webinar is our kickoff for the grant and are looking forward to hosting regular meetings moving forward, so please get in touch if you're interested in hearing more about ZooMu. Please join us. Take care, Greg Welcome to the ZooMu Network RCN Kickoff! The *Zoo Museum Network* is an NSF-funded project that seeks to build a lasting network of biological collections staff who are equipped to work across living collections in zoos and aquariums and preserved biological collections in natural history museums. We aim to open broad new opportunities for biological collections research by linking living and preserved collections, databases, and professionals. Join us for a kickoff webinar event to get the next 5 years of ZooMu RCN started. *Date:* Monday, December 9, 2024 *Time: *12pm PT; 3pm ET Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zoomu-network-rcn-kickoff-tickets-106025631818… **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell *Sr. Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology* *Division of Vertebrate Zoology* https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7789-9806 YALE PEABODY MUSEUM Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 Package shipping address: Greg Watkins-Colwell Division of Vertebrate Zoology YALE PEABODY MUSEUM 170–210 Whitney Avenue New Haven, CT 06511 USA 203-432-3791 ****************

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