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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Please participate in a survey to help define a stakeholder vision to maximize the value of biodiversity collections data for collections management, research and education in the future.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">The <span style="background:white">
Biodiversity Collections Network (</span>BCoN) is coordinating the development of this vision in response to requests from NSF and others to inform the development of a new funding program to succeed NSF’s current ADBC program. The effort will culminate in
a workshop in October 2018 where we will consolidate the feedback into a strategic plan for 2020-2030. The strategic plan, to be issued in early 2019, will be available for public comment and edited accordingly before it is finalized.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060;background:white">BCoN is a five-year national initiative funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF DBI 1441785) to support the development of a new, sustainable community of
practice that will ensure that all U.S. biodiversity collections are digitally available for research, education, informed decision-making, and other scholarly and creative activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">The survey can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bcon.aibs.org_2018_02_07_survey-2Dharnessing-2Dbiodiversity-2Dcollections-2Ddata-2Dfor-2Daddressing-2Dnational-2Dchallenges_&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=nOkNb-drVGTmYX9XRr7EUnV_9mNTdV1SM4NzsEsmRvc&s=nG10FGTU9eyDM3xQAWVXULFow_95MG-9AO62iFiGv1Q&e="><span style="color:#002060">https://bcon.aibs.org/2018/02/07/survey-harnessing-biodiversity-collections-data-for-addressing-national-challenges/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Dr. Barbara M. Thiers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Curator of Bryophytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Editor,
<i>Index Herbariorum<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">President-Elect, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">New York Botanical Garden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"><a href="mailto:bthiers@nybg.org">bthiers@nybg.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#44546A"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sweetgum.nybg.org_science_docs_The-5FWorlds-5FHerbaria-5F2017-5F5-5FJan-5F2018.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=nOkNb-drVGTmYX9XRr7EUnV_9mNTdV1SM4NzsEsmRvc&s=4_5gLGMQYju-geIdYBRGrJxJtkdCONUGDCqEWKv75A0&e=">The World’s Herbaria 2017</a></span><span style="color:#44546A">
</span><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"> (second Index Herbariorum annual report)</span><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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