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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">iDigBio Announces the Second
Train-the-Trainers <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Georeferencing
Workshop (TTT #2)<br>
Save the Date and Apply Now! <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Application submission
deadline Thursday May 9th, 2013.<br>
Application via Google Form: <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tinyurl.com/gwgttt2app">http://tinyurl.com/gwgttt2app</a></span></b><b><br>
Participants limited to 20!</b><br>
More details:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-announces-second-train-trainers-georeferencing-workshop-ttt-2">https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-announces-second-train-trainers-georeferencing-workshop-ttt-2</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Georeferencing Working Group at iDigBio
is proud to announce the second "Train-the-Trainers"
Georeferencing Workshop for Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs),
Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) and others in engaged in the
digitization of biological collections in the United States. 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. Special attention
will be paid to the specific and unique georeferencing needs of
the TCNs and their workflows, protocols, and digitization
activities<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">.<br>
</b></p>
<o:p></o:p><b>What:</b> iDigBio's Second Train-the-Trainers
Georeferencing Workshop (TTT #2)<br>
<b>When:</b> August 12 – 16, 2013 [note August 11 / 17 are travel
days]<br>
<b>Where:</b> University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<br>
<b>Who:</b> Interested members of current TCNs, PENs and others in
the biodiversity natural history collections community.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Instructors:</b><br>
<b>Carol Spencer:</b> Staff Curator of Herpetology, Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley<br>
<b>Una Farrell:</b> Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology,
Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence<br>
<b>David Bloom:</b> VertNet Coordinator, Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology, University of California, Berkeley<br>
<b>Nelson Rios</b>: Manager of Collections and Bioinformatics,
Tulane University Museum of Natural History, Tulane University<br>
iDigBio Staff: <b>Gil Nelson</b> and <b>Deborah Paul</b><br>
<br>
<b>Contacts for questions</b>: Deborah Paul, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dpaul@fsu.edu">dpaul@fsu.edu</a>,
Cathy Bester, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:cbester@flmnh.ufl.edu">cbester@flmnh.ufl.edu</a>, or
David Bloom, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dbloom@vertnet.org">dbloom@vertnet.org</a><br>
<br>
On behalf of the iDigBio Georeferencing Working Group, we are
looking forward to your applications!<br>
Debbie Paul
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
"Most of human sentences are in fact aimed at getting rid of the ambiguity which one has unfortunately left trailing in the previous sentence." from Jacob Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
--Deborah Paul
iDigBio User Services
Institute for Digital Information
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32308
850-644-6366</pre>
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