<html><head>
</head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Don’t miss this one!</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">Creating and using taxonomic keys - Scott Bates (Purdue University) </span><b class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">October 21, 2016 from 3-4pm EST</b><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">Symbiota software includes a fully integrated system for dynamic keying that includes a suite of tools for key character development. In this SWG webinar, dynamic keying within Symbiota portals will be demonstrated, and an overview of key character creation will be presented.</span></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: white;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: white;">To attend the webinar, login at </span><span class="" style="color: purple;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_room_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=zCoFrKvlj9f3nANomq0ET-WI2SL_e7hDR4sCA2n2fdo&e=" target="_blank" class="" style="color: purple;">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/</a></span><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: white;">, select “Enter as guest,” enter your name, and click Enter room. </span></b></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">The iDigBio Symbiota Working Group would like to invite you to:</span><br class=""><font color="#212121" face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><b class="" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Symbiota Webinar Series</b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">: 3rd Friday of every month at 3-4pm EST from September – December 2016</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Several experts will present a series of four webinars focused on understanding advanced features in Symbiota software and how these features are used in various plant, fungus and animal portals. Each 30-45 minute webinar will focus on a different topic including: 1) </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creating and maintaining checklists</span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, 2) </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creating and using taxonomic keys</span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, 3) </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The GeoLocate Toolkit</span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, and 4) </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Linking Genetic Data to and from Symbiota portals.</span></font><br class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">For an introduction to Symbiota: </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__symbiota.org_docs_&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=H0N7xRqj0FhVd0sD3WWtj3PqdC6a3Zeqid68L8AJREo&s=EYRTG-rDrcdcxMQLUYY-iGzbP1impuZJZGDU8Jwkm-g&e=" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;">http://symbiota.org/docs/</a><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gries C, Gilbert E, Franz N (2014) Symbiota – A virtual platform for creating voucher-based biodiversity information communities. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1114. doi: </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dx.doi.org_10.3897_BDJ.2.e1114&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=91w4i1khQ7MC2RhnQ2yFE2pCOq53JEptKWLvYWg6tqU&e=" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;"><span style="text-decoration: none;" class="">10.3897/BDJ.2.e1114</span></a><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bdj.pensoft.net_articles.php-3Fid-3D1114&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=VaZJRLGz-B4jjmmGEyr0DNtfLD_HWpuMi6LadywzYIk&e=" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;">http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1114</a></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: white;">To attend the webinar, login at </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_room_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=zCoFrKvlj9f3nANomq0ET-WI2SL_e7hDR4sCA2n2fdo&e=" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/</a></span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: white;">, select “Enter as guest,” enter your name, and click Enter room. </span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As always, the webinar will be recorded and made available via the iDigBio Symbiota Working Group wiki. If you missed a webinar, check the wiki to watch again on your own time: </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_index.php_SWG-5FWebinar-5FSeries&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=CIYCB6Fbxg96HjEVrfTM-oazGZvhOAFfxxv_v2GjdWM&e=" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SWG_Webinar_Series</a></span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before: </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Test your connection: </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; background-color: white;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__admin.acrobat.com_common_help_en_support_meeting-5Ftest.htm&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=wzfG4n_qH-C8LRDtc_tHUxvSZ_5_WMgKdPDgdKTqOYU&e=" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">https://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm</a></span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Get a quick overview: </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.adobe.com_products_adobeconnect.html&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=78wg5fJmB74FJoRRoTn1ERU3Zz5o1rFvy-D28VyXWXU&m=rT8sXJJSCZnS5Mabopnr81ckOVT6n2dww_w0bPRaAhE&s=oKOhFNArM9KcR-Ql2CiKumU6py8f51m1wU90MKwoM_Q&e=" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html</a></span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class="" size="3">To sign up for the Symbiota Working Group listserv:</font></span></li></ul></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;" class="">Symbiota Working Group</span></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Resource: <a href="mailto:IDIGBIO-SYMBIOTA-WG-L@lists.ufl.edu" class="">IDIGBIO-SYMBIOTA-WG-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU</a></font></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Purpose: The Working Group is devoted to making Symbiota sustainable and continuing to make it useful to more people.</font></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">To add yourself to the list, email <a href="mailto:listserv@lists.ufl.edu" class="">listserv@lists.ufl.edu</a> with the following command in the email:</font></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">subscribe IDIGBIO-SYMBIOTA-WG-L first_name last_name</font></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">e.g., subscribe IDIGBIO-SYMBIOTA-WG-L Jane Doe</font></div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div></span><b class=""><u class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Symbiota Webinar Series schedule</span></u></b><br class=""><font class=""><span class="">1. Creating and maintaining checklists - Steven Buckley (US National Park Service) </span><b class="">September 16, 2016 from 3-4pm EST</b><br class=""><span class="">An overview of the checklist feature used in Symbiota portals including creating and managing checklists, searching for and associating vouchers, downloading data and managing checklist conflicts, and using the parent-child checklist functions for aggregating data. </span></font><br class=""><span class="">2. Creating and using taxonomic keys - Scott Bates (Purdue University) </span><b class="">October 21, 2016 from 3-4pm EST</b><br class=""><span class="">Symbiota software includes a fully integrated system for dynamic keying that includes a suite of tools for key character development. In this SWG webinar, dynamic keying within Symbiota portals will be demonstrated, and an overview of key character creation will be presented. </span><br class=""><span class="">3. The GEOLocate Toolkit - Michael Denslow and Herrick Brown (SERNEC) </span><b class="">November 18, 2016 from 3-4pm EST</b><br class=""><span class="">Symbiota software includes a GEOLocate Toolkit that leverages the power of Collaborative Georeferencing and provides realtime updates to coordinate values for selected records. In this SWG webinar, use of the GEOLocate Toolkit will be demonstrated, and an overview of the requirements for selecting sets of eligible records will be presented.</span><br class=""><span class="">4. Linking Genetic Data to and from Symbiota portals - Andrew Miller (MiCC) </span><b class="">December 16, 2016 from 3-4pm EST</b><br class=""><span class="">An overview of how to add genetic data to records in Symbiota portals and how to use the LinkOut feature in GenBank to link back to these records.</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Cheers,</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Andy</span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class="">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</div><div class="">Andrew Miller, Ph.D.</div><div class="">Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium</div><div class="">University of Illinois</div><div class="">Illinois Natural History Survey</div><div class="">1816 South Oak Street</div><div class="">Champaign, IL 61820-6970</div><div class="">phone: (217) 244-0439</div><div class="">email: <a href="mailto:amiller7@illinois.edu" class="">amiller7@illinois.edu</a></div><div class="">website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wwx.inhs.illinois.edu_research_pi_amiller&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=szbBGtNQ4mtuYp714JEliv_MF0HZhDMymKw9On5F81c&s=aCGjtjt5UybQQErBjc0P1iqU2WfV-2JQkG76Hvdezsk&e=" class="">http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/research/pi/amiller</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Office address:</div><div class="">Robert A. Evers Laboratory</div><div class="">Room 2003</div><div class="">1909 South Oak Street, MC-652</div></div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
</div>
<br class=""></body></html>