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<title>Special Announcement: NSC Alliance and iDigBio Cosponsor Symposium on 21st Century Collections</title>
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<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">NSC Alliance and iDigBio Cosponsor Symposium on 21st Century Collections</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#505050">The Natural Science Collections Alliance and iDigBio will hold an important symposium on the future of collections this May. NSC Alliance
 members are encouraged to participate in &#8220;Collections for the 21st Century&#8221; at the University of Florida on May 5-6.<br>
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The National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (ADBC) is in its third year. The primary goal of this wide-reaching program is to create online access to data from all of our nation&#8217;s natural history collections
 through the portal at iDigBio (<a href="http://www.idigbio.org">www.idigbio.org</a>), where data are available for more than 11,000,000 specimen records and the number is increasing weekly.<br>
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This massive amount of data provides new opportunities for previously intractable research requiring large amounts of spatial and temporal data, provides new information for educational and outreach initiatives and &#8211; importantly &#8211; provides opportunities to
 demonstrate the extraordinary value of our natural history collections.<br>
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To review how we can maximize the value of this national effort, a symposium, <em>
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Collections for the 21st Century</span></em>, sponsored by iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance will be held on May 5-6, 2014 at the University of Florida. This important program will emphasize
 the value of collections and address questions relevant to the national digitization effort, such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">What data are available or could be made available?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#505050;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">How are the data being used? What research questions can we address?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#505050;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Have we demonstrated the power of collections data to answer big-science questions?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#505050;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">How can the data improve our institutions&#8217; educational and outreach activities?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#505050;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">How do we translate our accomplishments into more public and private support for our collections?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#505050">The symposium will feature a full day of talks on May 5 and a half&#8211;day of talks on May 6. The draft agenda is available online at
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<span style="color:#336699">https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/collections21century/Collections_for_the_21st_Century_agenda.3.4.pdf</span></a>. Field trips to nearby natural areas will be held on the afternoon of May 6 for those
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