[Nhcoll-l] Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections course in December

[Austin Mast]

Hi, everyone!  It's our pleasure to announce the next offering of the Digitization Academy's course on public participation in digitization of biodiversity collections (see below).  Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it.  Thanks!

With best regards,

Austin and Kalina

Austin Mast — Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 — Director · Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication · College of Communication and Information · Florida State University — amast at fsu.edu — he/him

Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Course
Apply at https://forms.gle/J2Tf6cSDpdfDeDyN9 

We are pleased to announce the third offering of this course from iDigBio's Digitization Academy <https://digitizationacademy.org/>.  This free, online course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a biodiversity collections digitization project that successfully engages the public in online settings.  For more information on learning objectives, see the course tile at https://digitizationacademy.org/courses.  This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as collections managers, curators, student technicians, administrators, or others. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types.  Participants do not need prior knowledge of biodiversity informatics or specialized software. 

The course will occur from December 12–15 (Tuesday–Friday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm ET (= New York City time).  Participants can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside of class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment.

The course will be delivered in English.  Those interested in participating from outside the US may apply.

The course will be led by Austin Mast and Kalina Jakymec, with contributions from a panel of representatives from online public participation platforms.

Applications are due by 10 am ET on Monday, November 13.  Admissions decisions are likely to be made later that day.  We expect to cap the course at about 20 participants and will make admission decisions based on the relevance of your training to your organization's future activities and a desire to engage a diversity of perspectives.

Direct any questions about the opportunity to Kalina Jakymec (kjakymec at fsu.edu) or Austin Mast (amast at fsu.edu <mailto:amast at fsu.edu>).

The Digitization Academy is funded by iDigBio and Florida State University's Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication.  iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), & DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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