[Nhcoll-l] iDigBio Announces a Free 4-part Webinar Series Focused on Vertebrate Digitization

[Gil Nelson]

iDigBio’s Vertebrate Digitization Interest Group is pleased to offer a 
4-part webinar series entitled /The Value of Digitizing Vertebrate 
Collections/, all to be held on Tuesdays in September, 3:00-4:00 p.m. 
EDT. These will be the first four of several webinars leading up to a 
second iDigBio-sponsored vertebrate digitization workshop to be held 
spring 2016. The purpose of this first series of four is to outline the 
value and importance of digitizing vertebrate collections, including 
herps, mammals, birds, and fishes, with an emphasis on imaging. The 
target audience includes vertebrate zoologists, curators, collections 
managers, and others interested in vertebrate digitization. As defined 
for these webinars, digitization includes the transcription of label 
data into electronic records, production of one or more 2D or 3D images 
per selected specimen, the potential enrichment of label data (e.g. 
appending georeferences and/or links to catalogs, journals, and other 
source materials), and making transcribed data and associated images 
available via the web.

All webinars are 3-4 p.m. EDT and accessible at 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_vertdigitization&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=5U64rmNSjJRJq-zH3I4gE_HvVOZtaP7DGRa5ybuRAtM&s=LCTN2H1_K3wuJ5s8N_KH8369RhEDahRwtfLjPsB0pJQ&e= . Here is the schedule:

*September 8:* The Value of Digitizing Mammal Collections, Cody 
Thompson, University of Michigan

*September 15:* The Value of Digitizing Fish Collections, Andy Bentley, 
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and President of SPNCH

*September 22:* The Value of Digitizing Herpetology Collections, Chris 
Phillips, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois

*September 29:* The Value of Digitizing Bird Collections, Carla Cicero, 
UC Berkeley and Lead PI for Vertnet

Webinars are strictly one hour long. Time is made available during the 
webinar for questions and comments.

We use AdobeConnect for our webinars, an online conferencing tool. No 
special software is required. Any browser will work. Just navigate to 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_vertdigitization&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=5U64rmNSjJRJq-zH3I4gE_HvVOZtaP7DGRa5ybuRAtM&s=LCTN2H1_K3wuJ5s8N_KH8369RhEDahRwtfLjPsB0pJQ&e= , click Enter as Guest, 
enter you name, and login. All webinars will be recorded and made 
available on the interest group wiki at: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_index.php_Vert-5Fdigi-5Finterest-5Fgroup&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=5U64rmNSjJRJq-zH3I4gE_HvVOZtaP7DGRa5ybuRAtM&s=bqBFI_JRktRc401XhZa18bbZbLlLhcOTbVSOUVp-hjE&e= . To 
learn more about AdobeConnect, go here:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_images_a_ac_IDigBio-5FAdobe-5FConnect-5FQuick-5FStart-5FGuide.pdf&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=5U64rmNSjJRJq-zH3I4gE_HvVOZtaP7DGRa5ybuRAtM&s=MliCOeNOvFtRwRnwjSLOrdXutgkZiOMUzHrfWB4OAqE&e= 

Thanks!

Gil

-- 
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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