[tdwg] SPNHC 2016 Symposium on Mobilizing NHC Data - Call for Abstracts from iDigBio, RBGE, and UO

[Deborah Paul]

Hi Everyone!

Gehen Sie zu SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you going to SPNHC 2016? It's in 
Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25, 2016.

Folks from iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), RBGE 
(http://www.rbge.org.uk/), and UO (https://uoregon.edu/) are convening a 
Symposium at SPNHC 2016. With this email, we'd like to invite you to 
submit an abstract for our consideration.

*Symposium:* An International Conversation on Mobilizing Natural History 
Collections (NHC) Data and Integrating Data for Research.

Natural History Collection (NHC) data are being mobilized all over the 
world. Recent preliminary worldwide survey data suggests the trend is 
growing. As digitization begins to become an every-day part of 
collections, many compelling issues vie for attention. For example, 
cost, prioritization, sustainability, and rates of digitization are four 
such issues. And, many uses for NHC data are well-known and fairly 
well-understood. But issues exist with the data, and there is still much 
legacy data to be digitally captured – before it can be shared with the 
world’s researchers. We invite presentations from anyone in the 
collections and biodiversity informatics community who is involved in 
the mobilization and use of NHC data. We envision an assortment of talks 
covering three areas:

 1. digitization (including imaging) lessons learned and outstanding
    questions,
 2. new and emerging technologies/models, and cross-discipline
    collaborations for digitization and georeferencing, and
 3. collections data-in-action.

Our speakers may be, for example, those doing the digitization and 
mobilization of the data; museum collection administrators actively 
incorporating digitization into their museum’s mission and vision; 
computer, information, and library scientists supporting digitization 
and research efforts; education and outreach staff working with citizen 
scientists to digitize and georeference; or those using collections data 
in research.

*Abstract* *submission deadline is 15 March 2016.
**Note Well:* SPNHC 2016 local organizers are using an 
online-abstract-submission system and abstract template form you can 
find here: http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page15.html
Please note in your submission that the abstract is intended for 
the*International Conversation Symposium *and indicate which track or 
tracks your talk will address. Please use key tags: #Digitization 
Lessons Learned, #New Technology, New Strategies, and / or #Collections 
Data-In-Action.

You may direct any specific questions regarding the International 
Conversation Symposium to session conveners Deb Paul (dpaul at fsu.edu), 
Elspeth Haston (e.haston at rbge.org.uk), or Brian Westra (bwestra at uoregon.edu)

Vielen Dank und Alles Gute für 2016,
Many thanks and Happy New Year!,
Deb, Elspeth, and Brian
Please see the SPNHC symposia page for a detailed abstract 
<http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html>http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html.
(please excuse cross-postings)

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-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
850-644-6366

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