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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are invited to this year’s
</span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodigicon-2022" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodigicon-2022" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon 2022)</b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
an all-virtual event hosted by iDigBio and scheduled for </span><b style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27-29 September 2022</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Registration is free through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Although the agenda is still in progress, this year’s conference will feature:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· a session focused on <b>
data quality issues and solutions </b>organized by leaders from the world’s major aggregators, including GBIF, iDigBio, ALA, and CRIA,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· a 4-part <b>series comparing and contrasting leading collections and data management systems</b> (Arctos, Emu, Specify, and Symbiota) with time for your questions, and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· several <b>lightning rounds featuring digitization tools and techniques.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Also included will be extended sessions on:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· <b>image and data storage</b>,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· <b>digitization workflows using Symbiota</b> software,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· issues related to the <b>
Digital Extended Specimen,</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· methods dealing with <b>
biocultural issues and the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) labels</b>,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· an exploration of <b>digitization sustainability strategies</b> at the institutional level,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· consideration of current
<b>collaborations between GBIF, ALA, and iDigBio</b> for aligning pipelines benefiting data mobilization, and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">· reports from <b>major digitization projects</b> funded by the U.S National Science Foundation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Lightning Talk Space is Limited: </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">We have issued an open call for 10-minute lightning round talks focused on novel or successful digitization techniques, data mobilization strategies, tools, protocols, workflows, and the like. These rounds
are filling fast. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please email Conference Manager Jill Goodwin (jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu) right away if you are interested</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> in part</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">icipating.</span></p>
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