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Applications are now open Digitization Academy course <span style="font-weight: 700;">
Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections </span>taking place<span style="font-weight: 700;"> December 16-19 (Monday-Thursday).</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Apply at: </b></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><b><u><a href="https://forms.gle/u2anwVHChKsPQoZA9" target="_blank" id="OWA05089849-4bd0-3783-ebb2-2bd9ae038f1e" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">https://forms.gle/u2anwVHChKsPQoZA9</a></u></b></span></div>
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<b>This course is focused on public participation in science (sometimes called citizen science) as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens.</b></div>
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See below for more information and a link to the application!</div>
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<i>Kalina Jakymec</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>iDigBio </i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Workforce Development Manager</i></span></div>
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<i>Florida State University </i></div>
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<i>digitizationacademy.org | idigbio.org</i></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Apply at: </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/u2anwVHChKsPQoZA9" target="_blank" id="OWA444a0fa8-e486-ac2c-a49e-96513d886c41" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">https://forms.gle/u2anwVHChKsPQoZA9</a></u></span></div>
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This <span style="font-weight: 700;">free, online course</span> is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science,
community science, or crowdsourcing.</div>
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The aim of the course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection,
including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public participation in digitization workflow, (4) identify
and implement quality management strategies, (5) identify common participant motivations and strategies to recruit and engage participants in a project, including events, games, and online forums, (6) and perform evaluation of a public participation in digitization
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This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as student technicians, collections managers, curators, affiliated educators, or administrators. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants
do not need prior knowledge of public participation in science, only a desire to use it as part of their future research or digitization activities. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">The course will occur from December 16–19 (Monday–Thursday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm Eastern.</span> Participants can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation
time per day outside class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment. </div>
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The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US are welcome to apply.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700;"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/u2anwVHChKsPQoZA9" target="_blank" id="OWAaea85d1c-2f59-03f1-3f7b-419a26b9ab3f" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">Applications</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"> are
due by 10:00 am ET on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Questions can be directed to Kalina Jakymec (</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:kjakymec@fsu.edu" id="OWAfc5a5819-b1f6-1be9-2ae5-95db0de292e8" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">kjakymec@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">;
iDigBio’s Workforce Development Manager) and Austin Mast (</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:amast@fsu.edu" id="OWA70d51263-4c36-3eac-2e56-dc28e7097426" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="3" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">amast@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">;
Director of iDigBio’s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain).</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>The Digitization Academy is funded by</i></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><i><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA006094a0-db20-fea0-845d-792cac0a4e7c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="4" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); margin: 0px;"> </a></i></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><i><u><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA272755a3-0513-f628-0e43-96afe250f371" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="5" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">iDigBio</a></u></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i> and
Florida State University's</i></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><i><a href="https://idiginfo.org/" target="_blank" id="OWAb7e5c4b6-3de9-29f5-549a-54c62e3b46d8" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="6" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); margin: 0px;"> </a></i></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><i><u><a href="https://idiginfo.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA29c83d80-f143-9d60-9b7a-7d5fac50413a" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="7" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">Institute
for Digital Information and Scientific Communication</a></u></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>. iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), & DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)].
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</i></span></div>
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