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<div><b class="">Do you manage a small paleontology collection? Wondering how to get started with digitization of that collection? </b><b class="">Join us tomorrow afternoon (March 23rd) at 3pm eastern (2pm central) for a webinar by Laura Vietti (U. of Wyoming),
who will present on the challenges of digitizing a small paleo collection and how to overcome some of those challenges.</b></div>
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<div>From Laura:</div>
Digitization of fossil specimens is challenging due to variations in fossil color, composition, size, shape, preparations, and breadth of meta-data (field notes, lab notes, maps, photographs, geo-referencing). Because specimens vary across these fields, the
digitization process can differ specimen-to specimen and requires an adaptive workflow in addition to specialized equipment and training which can be difficult to achieve due to limited funds and personnel. particularly for small collections. Here, I present
examples of these various digitization challenges and hope to stimulate discussion on methods for overcoming them.
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As always, all webinars are free and open to anyone who might like to attend and will be recorded as well and made available via the iDIgBio Paleo Digitization working group wiki page: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_index.php_Paleo-5FDigitization-5FWorking-5FGroup&d=AwMF-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=LgzpDHgHASAqhvGinJn57Vd1qWvdKcp0g1kUTYJ0DeY&s=xXldkEHFxIkm6gYLU1l-pAQhan8D9uPkTMX3gqgtCqQ&e=" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Paleo_Digitization_Working_Group</a></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;">To attend the webinar, login at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_paleo&d=AwMF-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=06O5ve7x4cj7xsoqxST-fOp1ng0emCRZnkiVT72S0m8&s=_YnGgCOpZYX-eMJLZ7mY1nzIdikazDFRFNqZZyrLmBY&e=" class="">https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/paleo</a>,
select “Enter as guest,” enter your name, and click Enter room. For the complete schedule of this year’s webinars, visit the working group wiki at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_index.php_Paleo-5FDigitization-5FWorking-5FGroup&d=AwMF-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=06O5ve7x4cj7xsoqxST-fOp1ng0emCRZnkiVT72S0m8&s=6UbpWCPCc_O-sU0uuw3SHKIoH-pvVUZ2jNGCSITQmto&e=" class="">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Paleo_Digitization_Working_Group</a>.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Talia Karim, PhD<br>
Collection Manager<br>
Invertebrate Paleontology<br>
CU Museum of Natural History<br>
University of Colorado<br>
265 UCB<br>
Boulder, CO 80309-0265<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fossilinsects.colorado.edu&d=AwMF-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=LgzpDHgHASAqhvGinJn57Vd1qWvdKcp0g1kUTYJ0DeY&s=VpWavhSU33q0sqE4PCbH5yfzwzFloqI9N94iK4goseI&e=">http://fossilinsects.colorado.edu</a></div>
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