<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-body gmail-field-type-text-with-summary gmail-field-label-hidden"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even"><p>Looking for a good work-from-home project? What about improving the quality of your specimen data? <b>Join us today at 3:30pm Eastern for Open Office Hours hosted by the <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_Working_Groups#API_User_Group_.28R-based.29">iDigBio API User Group (R-based)</a></b> to see tools that can help you identify data quality opportunities in the data you publish to iDigBio.<br></p><p>This
 is a <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/open-office-hours-hosted-api-user-group-r-based">twice monthly online drop-in session</a> where anyone is welcome to bring their 
questions or ideas about using tools such as the iDigBio API 
(Application Programming Interface) to work with biodiversity occurrence
 data in R. Community members of all backgrounds (collections staff, 
researchers, IT, etc.) and levels of programming experience (including R
 novice, or R non-existent) are encouraged to use these office hours as a time to discover 
and discuss API data access, issues, and solutions.</p>
<p>At the beginning of each session we will host a <strong>5-10 minute demo</strong>, followed by <strong>an open agenda</strong>. Today's demo will be an introduction to the basic iDigBio API search command in R. <b>If you know you have a question or topic that you'd like to focus on, feel free to <a href="https://bit.ly/2wypVsY">sign up ahead of time</a></b> to ensure that it is addressed in a particular session. Participants are welcome to drop by for only part of the hour.</p><p>WHEN: Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month, 3:30-4:30pm Eastern<br>WHERE: <a href="https://fsu.zoom.us/my/idigbiowg">https://fsu.zoom.us/my/idigbiowg</a></p><p>Hope to see you there!<br>Erica</p><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><i>Erica Krimmel</i></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Digitization Resource Coordinator</span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/" title="https://www.idigbio.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">Integrated Digitized Biocollections</a> (iDigBio)</span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Florida State University</span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:ekrimmel@fsu.edu" target="_blank">ekrimmel@fsu.edu</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(619) 876-3794</div></div>
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