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Heads up! Register and mark your calendars for two upcoming webinars in iDigBio's
<i>Sustaining Collections Digitization Beyond NSF Funding</i> series!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">October 14, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 pm ET<br>
</span><i>Enhanced Workflows for Sustaining Biodiversity Digitization at AMNH<br>
</i>This session will showcase how the American Museum of Natural History is advancing the digitization of its collections through coordinated workflows, innovative technologies, and sustainable approaches. Presentations will highlight strategies for retro-databasing
historical collections, digitizing fossil specimens, expanding digital asset management systems, and exploring database solutions that strengthen long-term digitization efforts.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">October 21, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 pm ET<br>
</span><i>Georeferencing Biodiversity Specimens<br>
</i>This session will explore the GEOLocate platform, covering the latest advancements, collaborative workflows, database integration, data preparation, post-processing, and repatriation. Real-world examples from recent projects will highlight how georeferencing
supports long-term biodiversity data use.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Register here:<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA64c929cb-db35-3a5d-ff7b-778fb1af1d08" href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAff07c60d-ed39-d790-3fee-c1ad7530b90b" href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence">https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-importance-sustaining-biodiversity-specimen-collections-digitization-absence</a></u></span></div>
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For additional information, including past recordings and future events, visit the series Wiki page:<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA1cbb4b0c-e075-56f9-6bec-e4a1f3ae3462" href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series">
</a><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAc7d4d30c-1f00-7b42-79c8-bb9c07fcce26" href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series</a></u></span><br>
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We hope to see you there!<br>
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Best,</div>
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Gil</div>
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Gil Nelson, PhD</div>
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Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)</div>
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President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)</div>
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Florida Museum of Natural History</div>
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University of Florida</div>
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gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</div>
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