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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">iDigBio’s </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA0c53601e-9aa3-bfb2-8311-f540f109f9c5" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">Digitization
Academy</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is pleased to announce our 2025 course offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Digitization Academy delivers online courses that are focused on a range of activities relevant to biodiversity collections and capturing digital data about biodiversity. Our courses aim to empower participants with skills
and knowledge to advance digitization of biodiversity data. For more information on learning objectives, see the course tiles for our 2025 offerings at
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<b>2025 Digitization Academy course offerings:</b></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 0px;">Introducción a la Digitalización de Especímenes de Biodiversidad </div>
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<i>Curso ofrecido principalmente en español. Course offered primarily in Spanish. </i></div>
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Del 7 al 30 de abril de 2025 (lunes y miércoles)</div>
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25 al 28 de agosto de 2025</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 0px;">Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization</div>
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September 29–October 29 (Mondays and Wednesdays excluding Oct. 20, 22)</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 0px;">Digital Imaging for Biodiversity Collections</div>
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Applications for most courses open about 8 weeks prior to course offering.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Direct any questions about the
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: 700;"><u><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA82d26c65-e367-ccda-a309-3e4dc8cfd764" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">Digitization Academy</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"> to
Kalina Jakymec (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: 700;"><u><a href="mailto:kjakymec@fsu.edu" id="OWA0294fd7f-8441-3815-b33b-9f963ffb9c32" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">kjakymec@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">)
or Austin Mast (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: 700;"><u><a href="mailto:amast@fsu.edu" id="OWA21cbc58a-c123-15f2-ad3a-fc4f394248b5" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">amast@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">).</span></div>
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<i>The Digitization Academy is funded by iDigBio and Florida State University's Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication. 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></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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