[Nhcoll-l] Call for abstracts: SPNHC 2014 Small Collections Symposium
Gil Nelson
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu
Tue Mar 4 07:53:11 EST 2014
*SPNHC 2014 Small Collections Symposium **
**Call for Presentation Abstracts*
We are pleased to announce that iDigBio <https://www.idigbio.org/> and
the Small Collections Network (SCNet <http://scnet.acis.ufl.edu/>) are
organizing a symposium at SPNHC 2014
<http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/spnhc2014/programme/> entitled
*Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Small Collections in Digitization
Initiatives: A Call From the Small Collections Network (SCNet)*. The
symposium is scheduled for Wednesday, 25 June and will focus on
strategies for recruiting, retaining, and sustaining small collections
within local, regional, national, and international digitization
initiatives. The program will include a report of findings from a
community survey of small collections as well as outcomes from the small
collections workshop
<https://www.idigbio.org/content/small-collections-workshop> to be held
at Central Michigan University USA, 7-10 April. Those who would like to
contribute to this symposium are invited to submit a presentation
abstract addressing one or more of the following themes, or an alternate
theme. Talks are anticipated to be 20 minutes long, inclusive of 5
minutes for questions. Our goal is to create an international dialog
centered on issues related to curating, digitizing, and managing small
collections.
Currently envisioned themes include:
1. the importance of small collections data to national networks of
biodiversity data repositories,
2. data-driven research underscoring the significance and contributions
of small collections to biodiversity research and/or to the training of
undergraduate and graduate students,
3. the role of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in sustaining
and growing small collections,
4. recommended or best practices for initiating and sustaining
digitization in small collections,
5. current initiatives targeted at the support of small collections,
6. the role of larger collections in sustaining smaller collections,
7. issues, challenges, and methods for resurrecting orphaned
collections, and
8. the role SCNet might play in sustaining small collections.
Proposals and abstracts may be submitted at:
http://tinyurl.com/RecruitingRetainingSymposium.
For further information, contact the organizers of this symposium: *Gil
Nelson* (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu) or *Anna Monfils* (monfi1ak at cmich.edu).
--
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
Twitter: @idiggilnelson
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