[Nhcoll-l] SPNHC 2014 Specimen Digitisation: Data Collection, Capture, Use, Re-use, Imaging, ...AND DemoCamp

[Amanda Neill]

Hello all, I suggest a cross-cutting collaboration between two SPNHC sessions with similar interests and intentions.  Can I do that?

A.  See below for the symposium announcement for "Update on Initiatives and Progress in Digitization of Natural History Collections"-important tales to be told and experiences to be shared on Wednesday June 25.
B.  See the SPNHC 2014 Conference Website and this link for information about SPNHC DemoCamp: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/30586/SPNHC2014DemoCamp-call-for-abstracts.pdf -live demonstrations on Thursday June 26.

Got a powerpoint and a story to tell AND want an additional 15 minutes to demonstrate your feature/software/thing in action?  Consider the opportunity to do both.  I hope we get a wide variety of submissions for both sessions!

P.S. the DemoCamp abstract deadline is 10 days away (April 25)

Thank you,
Amanda

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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] SPNHC 2014 Specimen Digitisation: Data Collection, Capture, Use, Re-use, Imaging, ...

Hello Everyone,

Are you going to SPNHC 2014<http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/> in Cardiff, Wales? iDigBio invites participants to submit talks for Symposium Update on Initiatives and Progress in Digitisation of Natural History Collections<http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/31182/UpdateDigitisationNHCSPNHC2014Symposium.docx>.

All across the globe, many Natural History Collections (NHC) are digitising their holdings, seeking funding to digitise, or trying to figure out how they can get started. Logically, with the development of these digital resources, researchers, providers and users are interested in any specimen data gaps noticed, and specimen data use and re-use cases. No matter where you are on this continuum at your institution, keeping up-to-date on what is going on and what is possible is no easy task. Come to this session to find out what's happening across the globe, discover new opportunities to share your expertise and learn from others digitisation experiences.

Possible topics include: new digitisation software or features, what is takes to sustain and maintain a digital resource (once it's created), what's the latest on mass digitisation strategies (think conveyor belts and crowd-sourcing), imaging strategies (3-D, micro-CT, resolution questions, whole-drawer) and image annotation, innovative uses for OCR output using ML, and NLP to see your data in a whole new way, and what's all this data being used for?

Looking forward to a wide variety of submissions!

Warm regards,
Conveners: Deborah L Paul (dpaul at fsu.edu<mailto:dpaul at fsu.edu>), Elspeth M Haston (e.haston at rbge.ac.uk<mailto:e.haston at rbge.ac.uk>), and Elizabeth Ellwood (eellwood at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:eellwood at bio.fsu.edu>)
Feel free to contact us with questions.


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