[Nhcoll-l] Biodiversity Summit 2020: Registration and Call for Abstracts now Open

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We are pleased to announce that registration for Biodiversity Summit 2020 opens 3 February, 12:00 a.m. at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biodiversity-summit-2020-tickets-85264844445<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_biodiversity-2Dsummit-2D2020-2Dtickets-2D85264844445&d=DwQFAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=-DeN3HZj0Hb0vKtqmNM6xJyvWlG-EW6_J4YBXE1_ai4&m=WoWx6AzXTS5-VNaZunIQF0yHnFYZP-Ws2-Hhf6WejSg&s=sEupWCqKE1Z07_z--9CSUt9X1Q3txkJ31qD4bhFSGt8&e=>. For more information and to stay abreast of conference planning see: https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-summit-2020. Registration is free, but all participants must register and display credentials.

iDigBio, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Smithsonian, GBIF, and TDWG are pleased to distribute this call for abstracts for Biodiversity Summit 2020, to be held in Alexandria, VA USA, 20-25 September 2020. This is a joint conference with three days of pre-conference meetings (20-22 September) and 3 days of plenaries and concurrent sessions. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are being solicited for 24-25 September. Oral presentation sessions will be 15 minutes each.

Please select the preferred conference theme and whether your abstract is for an oral or poster presentation within that theme.

Posters may be portrait or landscape in format and cannot exceed 2 feet (61 cm) on the short side and 4 feet (122 cm) on the long side.

Deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2020. There will be no extensions.

Please strive to limit your abstract submission to 3500 characters (inclusive of spaces) for the combination of title, authors, affiliations, body, and references. Available conference space coupled with the conference planning team's preference for accommodating all submitters may limit the number of accepted oral presentations for any single presenter. Oral session proposers might be requested to convert to a poster session if space proves critical.

There are ten broad themes for the conference. Please be prepared to select the theme that best fits your abstract. Conference organizers will make every effort to accommodate your preferred theme. In cases where logistics make this impossible, we will strive to place your presentation into the most appropriate alternative.

1. Digitization, data mobilization, and use
2. Advances in digitization protocols, techniques, and tools
3. Uses of biodiversity data in education and outreach
4. Impacts of data science on biodiversity informatics
5. Big data and the biodiversity sciences
6. Human diversity and inclusion in the biodiversity sciences
7. Tools and techniques for data analysis and visualization
8. The future of biodiversity informatics
9. Broadening international collaboration
10. Advances in biodiversity data standards

We will use Pensoft's ARPHA online publishing platform for abstract submission to Biodiversity Science and Standards (BISS) (https://biss.pensoft.net/), an innovative open access journal for the professional publishing of abstracts. Instructions for Abstract Submission using ARPHA are available at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/8/8a/2020_Instructions_for_Abstract_Submission.pdf. Using BISS will allow us to publish your abstract online at a stable URL. You can see published abstract collections (https://biss.pensoft.net/collections) or look for Biodiversity Summit 2020 (https://biss.pensoft.net/collection/181/) when it comes online. You will be able to link your presentations (slides or posters) to your abstracts following the conference. Sign up for email notifications of newly published BISS content at https://pensoft.net/profile/alerts/edit.

Please Note: Registration is free. But, you must register for the conference for your abstract to be reviewed.

iDigBio, GBIF, NMNH, and TDWG value the diversity of views, expertise, opinions, backgrounds, and experiences reflected among our partners and the broader biodiversity sciences community. Biodiversity Summit 2020 is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all conference participants. Participants will be expected to follow iDigBio's Code of Conduct<https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-code-conduct>:  https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-code-conduct.



Gil Nelson PhD, Director
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu<mailto:gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu>
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Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>


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