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<b>SPNHC 2014 Small Collections Symposium </b><b><br>
</b><b>Call for Presentation Abstracts</b><br>
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We are pleased to announce that <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/">iDigBio</a>
and the Small Collections Network (<a
href="http://scnet.acis.ufl.edu/">SCNet</a>) are organizing a
symposium at <a
href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/">SPNHC
2014</a> entitled <b>Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Small
Collections in Digitization Initiatives: A Call From the Small
Collections Network (SCNet)</b>. The symposium is scheduled for
Wednesday, 25 June and will focus on strategies for recruiting,
retaining, and sustaining small collections within local, regional,
national, and international digitization initiatives. The program
will include a report of findings from a community survey of small
collections as well as outcomes from the <a
href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/small-collections-workshop">small
collections workshop</a> to be held at Central Michigan University
USA, 7-10 April. Those who would like to contribute to this
symposium are invited to submit a presentation abstract addressing
one or more of the following themes, or an alternate theme. Talks
are anticipated to be 20 minutes long, inclusive of 5 minutes for
questions. Our goal is to create an international dialog centered on
issues related to curating, digitizing, and managing small
collections.<br>
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Currently envisioned themes include:<br>
1. the importance of small collections data to national networks of
biodiversity data repositories,<br>
2. data-driven research underscoring the significance and
contributions of small collections to biodiversity research and/or
to the training of undergraduate and graduate students,<br>
3. the role of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in
sustaining and growing small collections,<br>
4. recommended or best practices for initiating and sustaining
digitization in small collections,<br>
5. current initiatives targeted at the support of small collections,<br>
6. the role of larger collections in sustaining smaller collections,<br>
7. issues, challenges, and methods for resurrecting orphaned
collections, and<br>
8. the role SCNet might play in sustaining small collections.<br>
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Proposals and abstracts may be submitted at: <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium">http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium</a>.<br>
For further information, contact the organizers of this symposium: <b>Gil
Nelson</b> (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a>) or <b>Anna Monfils</b>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:monfi1ak@cmich.edu">monfi1ak@cmich.edu</a>). <br>
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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>
Twitter: @idiggilnelson</pre>
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