[Nhcoll-l] iDigBio survey for collections managers, curators, directors

[Gil Nelson]

If you are a natural history museum collections manager, curator, or 
collections director, please help the iDigBio Biodiversity Informatics 
Manager Working Group by completing the anonymous online survey 
referenced below. We are gathering community input regarding the role 
and services of biodiversity informatics managers within natural history 
collections. We need your opinion regardless of whether your institution 
currently employs a biodiversity informatics manager.

Our goal is to gather data about the status of biodiversity informatics 
management as a profession and its importance to biological collections 
digitization, curation, and management. The information gathered will be 
used to make recommendations about the:

1.status of biodiversity informatics as a profession,

2.skill set required of successful biodiversity managers,

3.activities that are out-of-scope for biodiversity informatics managers,

4.development of university curriculum to support the profession, and

5.placement of biodiversity informatics managers within an institution's 
organizational chart.

The opinions of those who receive or wish to receive services from 
biodiversity informaticians is extremely important.

Follow this link to the survey:
https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0SMjNFnYDXMlFUV

-- 
Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information

Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu

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