[Nhcoll-l] Workshop for Digitizing Paleontology Collections

[Utrup, Jessica]

iDigBio<http://www.idigbio.org>, the National Science Foundation's national HUB for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC), is pleased to announce the fourth in a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching, maintaining, and/or enhancing a collections digitization program. This new workshop will focus on digitizing paleontology collections, including invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants.

Online application<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGY0YjBFY2JPaDB2QlJDeTRNY3Yzanc6MA#gid=0> deadline: 1 May 2013. (Or, see http://tinyurl.com/paleoapp)

See the online announcement<https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-and-yale-peabody-museum-announce-paleontology-digitization-workshop> for more information.

What: Workshop for Digitizing Paleontology Collections (vertebrates, invertebrates, plants).
Where: Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut.
Who: Collections managers, curators, curatorial assistants, and directors of U.S. non-federal paleontological collections who are in the planning stages, early initiation, or enhancement of collection digitization.
When: September 23-26, 2013 (September 23 and 26 will be travel days)
Planning Team: Susan Butts (Yale Peabody), Una Farrell (Biodiversity Institute, U. Kansas), Austin Hendy (Florida Museum of Natural History), Talia Karim (Museum of Natural History, U. Colorado at Boulder), Gil Nelson (iDigBio), Chris Norris (Yale Peabody), and Jessica Utrup (Yale Peabody).
Sponsored by: iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) in collaboration with the Yale Peabody Museum.
Contact: For further information, contact Gil Nelson (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>) or Susan Butts (susan.butts at yale.edu<mailto:susan.butts at yale.edu>).


Jessica Utrup
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06510 USA
Jessica.utrup at yale.edu<mailto:Jessica.utrup at yale.edu>
Main Campus: (203) 432-1722
West Campus: (203) 737-3067


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