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This is a re-announcement, this time with a deadline. iDigBio and
SCNet are sponsoring the symposium described below at SPNHC 2014.<br>
<br>
Please submit abstracts by <b>5 May 2014</b> using the submission
form at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium</a><br>
<b><br>
</b>Original announcement of 4 March (with thanks to those who have
already responded!):<b><br>
SPNHC 2014 Small Collections Symposium </b><b><br>
</b><b>Call for Presentation Abstracts</b><br>
<br>
We are pleased to announce that <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.idigbio.org/" target="_blank">iDigBio</a> and
the Small Collections Network (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://scnet.acis.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">SCNet</a>) are
organizing a symposium at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/"
target="_blank">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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/small-collections-workshop"
target="_blank">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>
<br>
Proposals and abstracts may be submitted at: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium"
target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium</a>.<br>
For further information, contact the organizers of this symposium: <b>Gil
Nelson</b> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu" target="_blank">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a>)
or <b>Anna Monfils</b> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:monfi1ak@cmich.edu" target="_blank">monfi1ak@cmich.edu</a>).
<br>
<br>
Follow Gil Nelson on Twitter @idiggilnelson.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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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