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you are a collections professional within a natural history
museum or academic collection, the survey linked below applies
to you. Please help us by completing it.</span></p>
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and Yale Peabody Museum are hosting a workshop focused on the
digitization of source materials in natural history
collections, including field notebooks, catalogs, cards,
ledgers, etc. </span></p>
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are interested in learning the number of institutions that do
and do not digitize these types of materials, and the
digitization methods used.</span></p>
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those </span><span
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</span><span
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not</span><span
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digitize source materials, we ask you to complete only the
first three questions of the survey linked below. Clicking
through the survey using the continuation icon at the bottom
right of the screen will submit your survey responses.This
will help us estimate the prevalence of source material
digitization in the natural history collections community.</span></p>
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<span
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those </span><span
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do</span><span
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digitize source materials, we request that you complete the
remainder of the survey. It should take less than 20 minutes.
</span></p>
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is the link to the survey:</span></p>
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href="https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8DhH6tGdBunTsNv"
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<span
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thanks!<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tim
White (Yale Peabody Museum)</span></span><b
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id="docs-internal-guid-294f07cb-0049-e0c0-247d-4fcc5f64f087"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br>
<b></b></span></b><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span
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Nelson (iDigBio)</span></span><b style="font-weight:normal;"
id="docs-internal-guid-294f07cb-0049-e0c0-247d-4fcc5f64f087"><span
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Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information
Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a></pre>
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