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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">BioDigiCon: Final Update<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Plans for the Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon 2022) are nearly complete. You can explore the agenda and other conference-related information on the conference wiki page
here: <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/BioDigiCon_2022">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/BioDigiCon_2022</a> and the presentation abstracts here:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qooo7bKfTC8mGXAct2xhjrhg1nWZFHPrtJBJ_n6oLds/edit#heading=h.lhcfh1hw2hqa">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qooo7bKfTC8mGXAct2xhjrhg1nWZFHPrtJBJ_n6oLds/edit#heading=h.lhcfh1hw2hqa</a>.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;background:white">Registration is free!</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;background:white"> Please register
via Eventbrite: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697"><span style="color:#3366BB;background:white;text-underline:none">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697</span></a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">There is an excellent line-up of discussion sessions and workshops, including:
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<b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;background:white">BiotaPhy Webinar 2: Resolving Nomenclature: Making Appropriate Taxonomic Choices<br>
</span></i></b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E;background:white">Maria Beatriz de Souza Cortez</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">, University
of Florida</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E;background:white"><br>
</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;background:white">BioDigiCon is pleased to provide the platform for the second in a
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biotaphy-2022-webinar-series"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">series of 10 webinars sponsored by BiotaPhy</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">,
a set of computational workflows with broad impact on data-intensive research spanning ecology, phylogenetics, systematics, and conservation biology.
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Data quality: most common data dealbreakers</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><br>
Cat Chapman, iDigBio; Margot Schneider, Atlas of Living Australia; Dora Canhos, CRIA; Andrea Hahn, GBIF; Elspeth Haston, RBGE</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Digital Extended Specimen Discussion Session</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><br>
Libby Ellwood, iDigBio; Katja Seltmann, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Katie Pearson and Ed Gilbert, Symbiota Support Hub<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Digitization Coordination: Combining Project Management & Digitization Efforts
to Benefit Collections, Big and Small</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E">Jackie Chapman, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives;
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Frederik Berger, MfN Berlin; Helen Hardy, NHM London; Sylvia Orli,
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E">NMNH Smithsonian</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">;
Mareike Petersen, MfN Berlin; Kira Sobers, Smithsonian Libraries</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"> and
Archives</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">; Alyson Wilkins, NHMU Utah</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Digitization Workflows in Symbiota-based Biodiversity Specimen Data Portals<br>
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University; Lindsay
Walker, Symbiota, ASU<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">GBIF, ALA, iDigBio: Aligning systems to benefit data mobilization </span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Federico Mendez (GBIF), Javier Molina (ALA), Maureen Kelly (iDigBio), Chris Wilson
(IDigBio) <o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Imaging Biodiversity Specimens: First Steps to a Great Start (and Beyond)<br>
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Austin Mast, Florida State University, Dept of Biological Science;
Lauren Cohen, FSU, Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication; Nicole James, FSU, Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication; Alex Adkinson, FSU, Department of Art<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Including Indigenous Metadata in Collection Records</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><br>
Maui Hudson, University of Waikato; Jane Anderson, New York University<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Solutions for long-term image storage and accessibility</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><br>
Dave Blackburn, University of Florida; Doug Boyer, Duke University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Michelle Koo, University of California - Berkeley; Nelson Rios, Yale University; Julie Winchester, Duke University<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Sustaining Institutional Digitization of Biodiversity
Collections: Considerations and Examples<o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Austin Mast (iDigBio, FSU), David Jennings (iDigBio),
Jenn Yost (Symbiota Support HUB, CalPoly), Lindsay Walker (<a>Symbiota Support HUB,
</a>ASU)<b><o:p> </o:p></b></span></i></p>
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groups</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1D1C1D"><br style="font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">
<i data-stringify-type="italic" style="font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="background:white">Rob Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History; Maggie Hantak, FLMNH; Ed Stanley, FLMNH; Julie Allen, University of Nevada at Reno; Jacob Idec,
FLMNH; Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina, Greensboro</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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