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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk3185505">Yale Peabody Museum in collaboration with iDigBio, the Natural Sciences Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America is pleased to update our announcement of the third annual Digital Data in Biodiversity
Research conference, to be held 10-12 June 2019 at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>Registration is open</b>:
</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-digital-data-conference-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-for-specimen-based-tickets-54760252389"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-digital-data-conference-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-for-specimen-based-tickets-54760252389</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">The <b>lodging options are also open</b>. Please note that we are offering
<b>economy lodging</b> again this year: </span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Yale_Digital_Data_Lodging_information"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Yale_Digital_Data_Lodging_information</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>Abstracts may be submitted for workshops as well as oral and poster presentations and discussion sessions (you will receive an abstract link in your registration confirmation letter).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>Deadlines:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>For workshop proposals: 23 March 2019;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>For those submitting an oral presentation or poster abstract: 30 April 2019;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>General registration: 17 May 2019.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b><span style="color:black">New this year
</span></b><span style="color:black">will be the opportunity to submit abstracts for half or full-day workshops and symposia to be held on Wednesday the 12</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><sup><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black">th</span></sup><span style="color:black">Those
submitting workshop or symposium abstracts must register prior to 23 March. Those submitting discussion, oral, or poster presentation abstracts must register prior to 30 April.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">The <b>conference wiki</b>, which includes the
<b>agenda</b>, is under construction but available at: </span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/3rd_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Yale"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/3rd_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Yale</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">.
It will be continuously updated, so keep an eye on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>More conference info</b> (including a list of keynote and plenary speakers) is available at:
</span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><b>Themes for oral presentations and posters
</b>might include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">published or publishable biodiversity research using digitized specimen data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">methods and protocols for enhancing discovery with digitized specimen data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">systematics and the use of digital specimen data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">ongoing research projects that utilize digital data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">gaps and deficiencies in currently available digital data that hinder effective use,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">user critiques of digital data, aggregators, and data providers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">pipelines that integrate digitization, data use, and research,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">standards and practices for depositing and documenting open access digital datasets,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">the role and relevance of “Big Data” in biodiversity research,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">use of digitized biodiversity specimen data within ecological research and practice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">conservation use of digital specimen data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">the relative importance of vouchers vs. observations as digital data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">managing digital biodiversity specimen data in support of research pipelines,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">analyzing and visualizing specimen-based and related digital data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">The planning team for the 2019 conference includes Tim White, Patrick Sweeney, Larry Gall, Susan Butts, Michael Donoghue, Nelson Rios, Greg Watkins-Colwell, and Michelle Duong from Yale; Jill Goodwin,
Gil Nelson, and Pam Soltis from iDigBio; Jill Parsons and Emily Mastrianni from ESA; and John Bates and Rob Gropp from NSCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">For further information or to ensure that you are on the conference email list, please contact Jill Goodwin (</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/jvgoodwin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/Y19NTH9Y/jvgoodwin@fsu.edu"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">jvgoodwin@fsu.edu</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">)
or Gil Nelson (</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/jvgoodwin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/Y19NTH9Y/gnelson@floridmuseum.ufl.edu"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505">gnelson@floridmuseum.ufl.edu</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk3185505"><span class="MsoHyperlink">
</span>at iDigBio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Gil Nelson PhD, Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Florida Museum of Natural History</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">University of Florida</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray"><a href="mailto:gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Courtesy Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Department of Biological Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Florida State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray"><a href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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