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We have several new and exciting sustaining digitization webinars coming up in November and December. Registration for all sessions is now open! </div>
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<u>Register here:</u></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">November 18, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Ensuring Long-Term Access to Biodiversity Data: iDigBio, GBIF, and Beyond</span></div>
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Speaker: Cat Chapman (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, iDigBio)<br>
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A common question that arises, now that iDigBio is in its final year of NSF funding, is: What do I do with my future data and what happens to my current iDigBio-hosted data? The good news is that iDigBio is working closely with GBIF to ensure that all data
contributed to iDigBio will be migrated to GBIF for continuous, secure, accessible, long-term availability. You heard Joe Miller’s (director of GBIF) commitment in September. In the current webinar, Cat Chapman, iDigBio’s Biodiversity Informatics Coordinator
will demonstrate how to register your collection at GBIF. Cat has already worked with many of you to make this happen. For those using Symbiota or Specify, watch out for the webinars for Symbiota (December 16, 2025) and Specify (January 27, 2026). Your data
comprise the most important asset created through our collective digitization efforts and must be preserved for future biodiversity research and education. We look forward to seeing you on November 18 at 2:00 p.m. ET.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">December 2, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">AI and Natural History Collections: Promise, Pitfalls, and Perspectives</span></div>
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Laura Briscoe (New York Botanical Garden)</div>
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Leanna Feder (New York Botanical Garden)</div>
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James Mickley (Oregon State University)</div>
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Emily Sessa (New York Botanical Garden)</div>
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Jordan Teisher (Missouri Botanical Garden)</div>
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Kim Watson (New York Botanical Garden)</div>
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Will Weaver (University of Michigan)<br>
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For more than two decades, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden has been a consistent leader in botanical specimen digitization and an innovator in emerging digitization technologies, tools, and protocols. Their early work
contributed to the establishment of NSF’s Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program and was among the first institutions to be funded through this highly successful program. NYBG was among the first institutions iDigBio staff visited
to see large-scale digitization in action and learn about effective tools, techniques, and workflows. As the title of this webinar suggests, NYBG remains on the cutting edge of digitization practice, and we welcome their staff and colleagues to this webinar
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">December 11, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Digital Data in Systematics and Biogeographic Research (using fishes as examples)<br>
</span>Speaker Dr. Larry Page (Curator Emeritus of Fishes, Florida Museum of Natural History)</div>
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The massive and still increasing quantity of digital biodiversity specimen data that has been generated and aggregated by natural history museums and academic collections across the globe has been a boon to biodiversity researchers and their research. We are
delighted to host Dr. Larry Page, founding director of iDigBio and leader in ichthyology research to recount why digital data are important to research and what makes the availability of these data essential to future research. We are also pleased to participate
in achieving Larry’s long-term vision of an accessible storehouse of digital data.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">December 16, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Preparing for the Future of Biodiversity Digitization & Data Access Using Symbiota</span></div>
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Katie Pearson (University of Kansas, Symbiota, iDigBio)</div>
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Lindsay Walker (University of Kansas, Symbiota, iDigBio)</div>
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Dr. Jenn Yost (California Polytechnic State University, Symbiota)</div>
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Symbiota software and portals have been integral to iDigBio since the beginning of NSF’s Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program in 2011. Celebrated by collections of all sizes for its intuitive interfaces, ease of use, open source
platform, and online availability, Symbiota has been critical to many collaborative digitization projects and is now used by over 1,100 collections as a collection management system. Symbiota has directed huge amounts of biodiversity data to iDigBio and GBIF
and has been especially supportive of and helpful to under-resourced and smaller collections. We are grateful to Dr. Jenn Yost, Katie Pearson, and Lindsay Walker and everyone at the Symbiota Support Hub, which joined iDigBio in 2021, for the outstanding support
and training they have provided to the Symbiota portal community and for their agreeing to present this webinar.</div>
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<u>For past recordings and upcoming events, visit the series Wiki page:</u></div>
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