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DCMI Webinar, February 10, Natural history data curation
by DCMI Announce 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

This webinar is scheduled for February 10, 2022, 16:00 UTCC and is free (but registration is required). ** About the webinar* Natural history collections constitute an important and complex knowledge infrastructure. The heterogeneous data in these collections include specimens, genomes, field notes, ecological monitoring data, and more -- all of which have huge potential for reuse in biodiversity, medicine, climate science, agriculture, and many other domains. However, facilitating this integrative reuse requires first maintaining the fragile infrastructures used to store and share these data, and second, novel approaches to migrating data from legacy (and often analog) formats into datasets that are more fit-for-use. In this webinar, Dr. Thomer will discuss findings from two projects tackling natural history data curation: one focusing on the maintenance and migration of natural history databases, and another on the digitization and mobilization of historical data. The webinar will be of interest to those working with similar collections, as well as those interested in the maintenance of knowledge organization, knowledge infrastructures and the integrative reuse of scientific data. This webinar is hosted by the DCMI Education Committee and will be moderated by Dr. Karen Wickett. ** About the speaker* Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She conducts interdisciplinary research on scientific data curation and on the maintenance and evolution of knowledge infrastructures. She is especially interested in database curation, integrative data reuse, and the collaborative use and curation of natural science data. Dr. Thomer earned her doctorate at the School of Information at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017. Prior to her graduate work, she was an excavator and ad hoc data curator at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. *Register (free) at* https://www.dublincore.org/news/2022/10-08_webinar-natural-history-data-cur…

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Two job openings at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (part of the University of Copenhagen)
by Pip Brewer 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hello! The Natural History Museum of Denmark is currently advertising for a: * Technical Team Leader / Digitisation Lab Manager, and a * Data Manager with IT background to be part of our Digital Collections Team working on the DaSSCo programme. DaSSCo aims to digitise all of Denmark's natural history collections and make them publicly available. We have funding until 31/08/2026 to kick start this ambitious programme, focussing on establishing the infrastructure and commence digitisation efforts. Deadline for applications is 4th February 2022. Full details can be found via the following links Technical Team Leader https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcandidate…> Data Manager https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcandidate…> Please share this message with colleagues, students, your networks, on newsletters, job boards, carrier pigeons etc! Many best wishes, Pip -- Pip Brewer DaSSCo Project Leader Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD) University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark pip.brewer(a)snm.ku.dk<mailto:pip.brewer@snm.ku.dk>

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Curation & Digitisation Assistant post at Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE): deadline 10th Jan 2022
by Lauren M. Gardiner (she/her) 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Happy New Year from the Cambridge University Herbarium! Would you like to be the Curation & Digitisation Assistant at the Cambridge University Herbarium, part of the Department of Plant Sciences? This is a new and exciting post and we are looking for someone with experience of working in herbaria/museum/library/archives, ideally with natural history collections. Funding is available for a fixed term 12 month contract in the first instance, full-time or part-time. The University of Cambridge actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all. The deadline for applications is 10th January 2022. You can find more information and the more detailed further particulars here: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/32760/. Please do share this message with colleagues, students, and your networks, newsletters, and job boards! With all very best wishes, Lauren --- Dr Lauren M. Gardiner FLS (pronouns: she/her)| Curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) and Academic Librarian for the Department of Plant Sciences | CB2 1LR | Email: herbarium(a)plantsci.cam.ac.uk<mailto:herbarium@plantsci.cam.ac.uk> | @CUHerb<https://twitter.com/cuherb> | YouTube Channel<http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4zZgFGfje_I7_k2my_zeqA> This email (together with any files transmitted with it) is intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed and must not be distributed without explicit consent. It may contain information which is confidential and/or legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email (or telephone) and delete the original message. Unless expressly stated, opinions in this email are those of the individual sender, and not of the University of Cambridge. The sender has taken reasonable precautions to check for viruses but the recipient opens this message at their own risk.

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