Paleonet: Digitizing Paleontology Collections Workshop

[Austin Hendy]

Dear all

The deadline is fast approaching (close of business today) for iDigBio's
upcoming workshop "Digitizing Paleontology Collections." Yes, that includes
fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants! For more information see the
announcement<https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-and-yale-peabody-museum-announce-paleontology-digitization-workshop>
.

iDigBio is the National Science Foundation's national HUB for Advancing
Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) and is running a series of
preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching,
maintaining, and/or enhancing a collections digitization program. This new
workshop will focus on digitizing paleontology collections, including
invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants.

Application deadline: 1 May 2013. Go to the online
application<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElHOVhnNm5XbWdkeG8ybmhncm9lZUE6MA#gid=0>
.

What: Workshop for Digitizing Paleontology Collections.

Where: Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut.

Who: Collections managers, curators, curatorial assistants, and directors
of U.S. non-federal paleontological collections who are in the planning
stages, early initiation, or enhancement of collection digitization.

When: September 23-26, 2013 (September 23 and 26 will be travel days)

Planning Team: Susan Butts (Yale Peabody), Una Farrell (Biodiversity
Institute, U. Kansas), Austin Hendy (Florida Museum of Natural History),
Talia Karim (Museum of Natural History, U. Colorado at Boulder), Gil Nelson
(iDigBio), Chris Norris (Yale Peabody), and Jessica Utrup (Yale Peabody).

Sponsored by: iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) in
collaboration with the Yale Peabody Museum.
Contact: For further information, contact Gil Nelson (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu) or
Susan Butts (susan.butts at yale.edu).

See you there,
Austin Hendy
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Austin Hendy
Senior Research Associate
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of FloridaGainesville, FL
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