The Society for Preservation of Natural History Collection's (SPNHC) 2017 Conference, "The Next Generation in Best Practices" [1] is being held in Denver, Colorado, from June 18 - 24, 2017, hosted by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science [2] and the Denver Botanic Gardens [3].

Folks from iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/ [4]) are convening two symposia at SPNHC 2017. With this email, we'd like to invite you to submit an abstracts for consideration, before January 13, 2017.

Symposium 1:  Advances in Digitization Worldwide: an iDigBio Symposium

Symposium 2:  Innovative Uses of Collections Data: an iDigBio Symposium
 

Abstract submission deadline is 13 January 2017.

The online submission form can be found here: http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/abstract-submission/ [5]

You may direct any specific questions regarding these Symposia to session conveners Deb Paul (dpaul@fsu.edu [6]), or Shelley James (s [7]james@flmnh.ufl.edu [8]).

Please see the SPNHC 2017 conference website for more information:  http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/ [1]