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<p>Hello SPNHC and a special shout-out to New Zealanders and those
in Oceania,<br>
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<p>Please help the BigDig organizing committee reach a worldwide
audience with this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.
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RE: BigDig 2017: High Throughput Digitization for Natural History
Collections <br>
DETAILS here:
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<p>WHAT is it? A one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 13<sup>th</sup> IEEE
International Conference on eScience (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__escience2017.org.nz_&d=DwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=eHqAJZFkaa3QBy-KKwNih-aiAdRTqCj9s3Zov-Hvm1U&s=53gs4GFl-T5Tm5iMjWsnI97jwwSNxPvbWxmAkLaNsb0&e=">http://escience2017.org.nz/</a>)</p>
<p>WHEN: 24—27 October 2017<br>
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<p>WHERE: Auckland, New Zealand</p>
<p>The BigDig workshop will focus on high-throughput digitization,
driven by the keen need to move the world’s physical collections
into the digital realm where they are safer from the ravages of
time, can be used by larger numbers of scientists and the public,
and can contribute in new ways to the study of biodiversity.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>
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* Digitization technologies for high-throughput 2D and 3D capture
of collection objects<br>
* Instrumentation strategies and algorithms<br>
* Specimen handling, label information capture, OCR, crowd-sourced
label transcription, 3D reconstruction<br>
* Digitization requirements, metadata, image and 3D fidelity, time
and resource constraints, speed<br>
* Workflows for high-throughput digitization of natural history
collections<br>
* Data management for large and perhaps distributed digital
collections of such data<br>
* Interface requirements, issues, and solutions both for
scientific research and for public outreach to extremely large
virtual collections<br>
* Applications of the resulting data resource to potentially new
science and approaches as evidenced by theoretical models, case
studies, parallels with existing similar data resources <br>
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<p>Thank you for your part in extending the reach of the organizing
committee with this call for papers. Deadline: June 30th, 2017.<br>
</p>
<p>With gratitude and in anticipation,</p>
<p>Debbie Paul, et al on the Program Committee</p>
<p>PS: Perhaps the local organizers of SPNHC-TDWG 2018 could help
spread the word about this opportunity in NZ?<br>
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Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
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