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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">See the below message from GBIF regarding their survey of Natural History Collections: Faster Access to More Data. This is an opportunity to have your voice heard and for increased collection improvement funding
by the GBIF Task Force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Andy Bentley<br>
Ichthyology Collection Manager<br>
University of Kansas<br>
Biodiversity Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dyche Hall<br>
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard<br>
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561<br>
USA<br>
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Tel: (785) 864-3863<br>
Fax: (785) 864-5335 <br>
Email: <a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu">abentley@ku.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Nodes_ig <<a href="mailto:nodes_ig-bounces@cemail.gbif.org">nodes_ig-bounces@cemail.gbif.org</a>> on behalf of "Siro Masinde [GBIF]" <<a href="mailto:smasinde@gbif.org">smasinde@gbif.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 16, 2015 at 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:nodes_IG@cemail.gbif.org">nodes_IG@cemail.gbif.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:nodes_IG@cemail.gbif.org">nodes_IG@cemail.gbif.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>DEADLINE EXTENSION - Survey of Natural History Collections: Faster Access to More Data
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Thank you very much to the more than 400 of you who have completed the survey on ‘natural history collections: faster access to more data’ and sorry for cross posting. Undoubtedly some of you missed
the deadline of 16 October 2015 due to other commitments while others may only just be receiving the survey for the first time. To facilitate all those that would like to complete the survey, we are extending the deadline to
<b>Friday 20<sup>th</sup> November 2015</b>. Please share the information about your collections through this simple survey whether you have started digitizing or not. The survey should take you an average of 10 to 20 minutes to complete. By participating in
this survey you are helping the collections community to gather basic information that is essential to the discovery of your collections, planning and leveraging resources for future digitisation and imaging of collections worldwide. This is an excellent
opportunity for the collections community to let the world know what you have in store and forge a united approach on how to unlock the vast wealth of data and information that remains inaccessible.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">The survey targets Administrators, Curators, Data, Information and Collection Managers of natural history collections.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">If you are one of the target respondents please follow this link to take the Survey:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">OR copy and paste the following URL into your internet browser:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ufl.qualtrics.com_SE_-3FSID-3DSV-5Fbyg2mgbtYdeF3bT&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=YMgZ6v7xmGzzbw2hpnrYyCsxjQt9DGvzUJnxE1Z7FU4&s=mSOjiIlHiINDCtf215v7yRrryQR8k2Zhyi7FOhUUGZE&e=">https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_byg2mgbtYdeF3bT</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Otherwise kindly assist us to further distribute this survey to relevant contacts and distribution lists so that the survey can have the widest reach possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">You can learn more about the GBIF task force by clicking here
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.gbif.org_page_82104&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=YMgZ6v7xmGzzbw2hpnrYyCsxjQt9DGvzUJnxE1Z7FU4&s=-yxtH1c4xINNOaauKmqe4vLVxtNgVHpjZkWvZsYmIsw&e="><i>GBIF Task Force on Accelerating the Discovery of Biocollections Data</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> Siro, on behalf of the GBIF Task Force Chair, Leonard Krishtalka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Siro Masinde</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Programme Officer for Content Mobilisation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:smasinde@gbif.org">smasinde@gbif.org</a> Skype: siro.masinde </span>
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