[Nhcoll-l] FW: Biodiversity Collections Network News and Updates

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Biodiversity Collections Network News and Updates
The Latest Buzz from BCoN

Share Your Thoughts on Biological Informatics Workforce Needs

The 2015 AIBS Council Meeting, “Addressing Biological Informatics Workforce Needs,” will convene on December 8th. The Council Meeting will consider the role of scientific societies and their journals in establishing training capacity and practice guidelines aimed at preparing the next generation of the scientific workforce to excel in the era of “big and open data.”

Anna Monfils has been invited to participate on behalf of the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) in a panel exploring “Lessons from National Data Initiatives on How to Drive Data Integration Forward.” She will report on, “Biological informatics training needs for systematics and digitization.” Monfils would like her comments to reflect the community’s needs and is thus soliciting community input. Please consider taking a few minutes to share your thoughts with her. All contributors will be credited. Below are the questions she would like input on:

  1.  What do we need to incorporate in our undergraduate training to prepare undergraduates for graduate work in systematics and biological informatics?
  2.  What do we want all biology undergraduates to know about documenting and digitizing biodiversity, biological informatics and big data when they enter the workforce?
  3.  What do we need to incorporate in our graduate training to prepare graduate students for careers in systematics and biological informatics?
  4.  What is needed to provide career systematists with training in digitization and biological informatics?
  5.  How do we educate the existing scientific workforce about documenting and digitizing biodiversity, biodiversity science, data access, centralizing data and relational data sets?
This is an opportunity for the community to ensure that biological informatics and digitization training continue to thrive in the new data publication environment. Your comments and suggestions have the potential to be incorporated into a consensus statement clarifying the actions needed of federal research agencies and universities, and specifying a role for scientific societies in promoting training and best data practices. Such a document can influence and strengthen the case for new investments in biological informatics training by universities and other bodies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It could also catalyze the adoption of stronger career incentives for biodiversity and biological informatics specialists.

Please consider sending you thoughts regarding the questions above to monfi1ak at cmich.edu<mailto:monfi1ak at cmich.edu> by December 4, 2015.

Collections Communications Workshop

On September 1-2, 2015, BCoN convened a workshop at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois to consider how the collections community could better coordinate efforts to communicate the importance of biodiversity collections. The meeting brought together nearly 30 individuals representing a broad cross-section of the community. Participants included administrators, scientists, curators, representatives from professional societies and biodiversity initiatives, communications, and government relations.

Workshop participants generated a rich set of recommendations that will be included in a workshop report. A draft report will be shared with workshop participants and then the broader community in the near future.

Recent Presentations

  *   BCoN participated in the 5th Annual iDigBio Summit, which was held in Arlington, Virginia on November 4-5, 2015. Robert Gropp presented on behalf of BCoN and highlighted the complementarity of BCoN to iDigBio.
  *   Barbara Thiers and Anna Monfils shared information about BCoN with BOTANY 2015 meeting participants.
New Supporting Organizations

We are happy to announce that the list of BCoN Supporting Organizations has grown to 31. Within the past few weeks, the Society of Herbarium Curators, Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University have joined our effort.

BCoN welcomes all organizations that share a commitment to strengthening the national biodiversity collections community to help ensure its capacity to sustainably digitize collections (specimens and associated data) for the benefit of science and society. There are no other obligations, although we hope that Supporting Organizations will contribute to our efforts through participation in BCoN programs and information exchange.

To add your organization to our list of Supporters, please contact Robert Gropp at rgropp at aibs.org<mailto:rgropp at aibs.org>.

Current Supporting Organizations

  *   American Institute of Biological Sciences
  *   American Society of Plant Taxonomists
  *   Angelo State Natural History Collections
  *   Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
  *   Bishop Museum
  *   C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, The Ohio State University
  *   Central Michigan University Herbarium
  *   Chicago Botanic Garden
  *   Denver Museum of Nature and Science
  *   Florida Museum of Natural History
  *   Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
  *   H.A. Stephens Herbarium, Emporia State University
  *   iDigBio
  *   Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
  *   Milwaukee Public Museum
  *   Natural Science Collections Alliance
  *   New York Botanical Garden
  *   North American Network of Small Herbaria
  *   Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium, Florida State University
  *   Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
  *   Small Collections Network
  *   Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections
  *   Society of Herbarium Curators
  *   SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  *   Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network
  *   The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
  *   The Field Museum
  *   Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
  *   University of Michigan Herbarium
  *   University of Wisconsin Insect Research Collection
  *   Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Share Your Story

Does your organization have information, resources or upcoming programs that you think would be of interest to others? Please share them with the BCoN community. You can either join the BCoN community website (it’s free) to share your information, or send a short note to Robert Gropp at rgropp at aibs.org<mailto:rgropp at aibs.org>.
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