[Nhcoll-l] Apply by Feb. 3 for iDigBio’s Workforce Development Workshop

[Kalina Jakymec]

Passionate about the future of skills development for the community creating digital biodiversity data? iDigBio’s Digitization Academy<https://digitizationacademy.org/> is hosting a workshop<https://www.idigbio.org/content/reimagining-post-degree-training-diverse-community-working-capture-high-value-digital-data> to plan strategies to shape the future of training for citizen scientists, museum professionals, and other data creators. This is a great chance to contribute your expertise! Applications<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5uRSu-plrhlURsLAPFR_DkYJcn4f9VfVB8VU71hDdPDNcoQ/viewform> for the workshop close on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 at 5p ET.

Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit!

All the best,
Kalina

Kalina Jakymec
iDigBio Workforce Development Manager
Florida State University
digitizationacademy.org | idigbio.org
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Reimagining Post-Degree Training for the Diverse Community Working to Capture High-value Digital Data about Biodiversity

The team behind iDigBio’s Digitization Academy<https://digitizationacademy.org/> is hosting a 2-day workshop to be held May 7–8, 2025, on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. This workshop will focus on designing strategies for building new competencies during careers that typically span decades after formal education opportunities have ended. This is often discussed as professional development.  However, today, the community capturing high-value digital biodiversity data has become a powerful combination of those with degrees in a relevant field (e.g., in our museums and universities) and those joining it through engagement with participatory science (sometimes called citizen or community science), monitoring, and other pathways.

How can post-degree training support a diverse data creation community where members understand and value each other’s roles?  How can training help this community to leverage the rapid pace of technological innovation to address evolving needs?  And how can these strategic training efforts be sustained for the long-term?

We invite expressions of interest from individuals with relevant expertise (including on professional development, biodiversity collections, the participatory sciences, the digital biodiversity data creation and use pipeline, and adjacent fields like formal education) and representatives from organizations and projects with a vision to build a sophisticated data creation community in support of science, society, and Earth’s biota.

This event will create opportunities for active exchange of insights, challenges, solutions, and visions for the future for the purpose of strategizing next steps for this community’s post-degree capacity building.

We are able to support about 20 participants’ travel, lodging, and meals.  Applicants from outside the US may apply.

Apply here<https://forms.gle/wMXzEU4XLgUGBBG19>!

Applications are due by 5p ET on Monday, February 3, 2025.

Please reach out to <http://amast@fsu.edu/>  <http://kjakymec@fsu.edu/> Kalina Jakymec<http://kjakymec@fsu.edu/> or Austin Mast<http://amast@fsu.edu/> with any questions!


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