[Nhcoll-l] Save the Date: Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 5-6 June 2017

[Gil Nelson]

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*Subject: *Save the Date: Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity 
Research Conference, 5-6 June 2017**

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iDigBio, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, and the 
University of Michigan Herbarium are pleased to announce the inaugural 
Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Ann 
Arbor, MI, 5-6 June 2017. The rapid mobilization of digitized 
biodiversity data, led largely in the United States by the National 
Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections 
program, has resulted in a substantial increase in available data for 
research and related activities. This conference will encompass the uses 
of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special 
emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for “big data” 
analytics in organismal biology. A full conference description and call 
for papers are in process and will be released in late autumn. Please 
save the date and watch for further announcements via several listservs 
and on the iDigBio website (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.idigbio.org&d=CwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ZA64O4WKcCLdk9h1X1NqUbuzfd7sBz9uwysYp-w8Rzw&s=N-W_m8jVtb3VuKJ6Q2TNoadKxf7kyqSjgSbzrjtH4DE&e= ). This conference 
will provide an important opportunity to explore digital data tools, 
techniques, discoveries, and outcomes across the biodiversity sciences. 
For further information or to ensure that you are on the email list, 
please contact Gil Nelson at iDigBio (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu 
<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>).

The planning team for this conference includes: Chris Dick, Rich 
Rabeler, Dan Rabosky, Alison Davis Rabosky, Cody Thompson, and Priscilla 
Tucker from the University of Michigan, and Gil Nelson, Larry Page, Pam 
Soltis, and Alex Thompson from iDigBio. *


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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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