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<p>Hello Everyone,</p>
<p>Did you note the #SPNHC2019 theme? <span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif;
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Making the Case for Natural History Collections</span><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif;">. Our symposium focuses on collections and collections data metrics and measuring success (or issues).
Many of you spend a lot of valuable time gathering and reporting statistics for your collections and data (for funders, administrators, curators, proposals, etc). So, we're really looking forward to your input on this topic.<br>
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<p>We're seeking a few speakers for our symposium: Collecting Measures Of Success. If this topic inspires you, please send us a draft abstract so we can discuss your proposed talk to see if it suits. Please send us<b> (via our email)
</b>your input by end of (your) Monday January 21st. <br>
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<p>See the entire abstract on this page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.spnhcchicago2019.com/abstract-submission">
https://www.spnhcchicago2019.com/abstract-submission</a></p>
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SY-06 Collecting Measures Of Success<br>
Organizers:<br>
Deborah Paul, iDigBio, Florida State University, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dpaul@fsu.edu">
dpaul@fsu.edu</a><br>
Shelley James, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shelley.james@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au">
shelley.james@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au</a><br>
David P Shorthouse, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa Canada, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:DShorthouse@nature.ca">
DShorthouse@nature.ca</a><br>
<p>In anticipation,<br>
Debbie, Shelley, and David<br>
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-- Upcoming iDigBio Events <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.idigbio.org/calendar">https://www.idigbio.org/calendar</a>
-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist
iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member
SPNHC Liaison, Member-At-Large and Member International Relations Committee
SYNTHESYS3 Representative, ICEDIG External Advisory Board Member
Vice Chair, Biodiversity Information Standards Organisation (TDWG)(2019-2020)
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
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