July 2017 Biodiversity Spotlight
Manta Rays
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Systems Administrator/Programmer III
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Job Opportunity for a Systems Administrataor/Programmer III in the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory at the University of Florida to work on iDigBio, the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections funded by the National Science Foundation. Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) enables data of millions of biological specimens to be used by the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.
The Evolution of Darwin Core Hour
From the Darwin Core Hour Team.
Research Spotlight: June 2017
Hole-y Plant Databases! Understanding and Preventing Biases in Botanical Big Data
June 2017 Biodiversity Spotlight
American Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)
Photo courtesy of: Florida Fish and Wildlife, Photo by: Karen Parker
Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
iDigBio and the University of Michigan’s Herbarium (MICH), Museum of Paleontology, and Museum of Zoology were pleased to co-host the Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 5-6 June
Research Spotlight: July 2017
Data Curation Profiles—An Information Science framework for data managers
-- Contributed by Wade Bishop and Kelly White, The University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences
Data curation profiles (DCPs). DCPs give scientists, researchers, and data managers an enhanced and detailed understanding of the “data story” from the perspective of the data. A DCP “captures requirements for specific data generated by researchers articulated by the researchers themselves” (http://datacurationprofiles.org/purpose) and provides data managers a framework to acquire an in-depth understanding of the particular data curation needs of producers and their intended users. Read more about Wade & Kelly's work with the iDigBio community here.
Natural History Collections Club Network Workshop
The Natural History Collections Club Network (NHCCN) will be hosting a half day workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in Denver, CO on Sunday, June 18th. The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness of Natural History Collections Clubs and to recruit new clubs into the network. Content of the workshop will include guidelines and strategies for starting a new club and methods for becoming a part of NHCCN. We have funding to support two individuals each from seven institutions to attend the workshop and the SPNHC conference. This includes funding for your registration, room, and travel to SPNHC from June 17-June 24, 2017. The NHCCN is made of several clubs that are curator-advised, student-driven organizations aimed at enhancing local natural history collections by helping to train student volunteers to assist in curating and managing them. The network represents clubs from all types of universities but seems to most benefit those with small collections as a way to protect and raise enthusiasm for their collections. We are particularly interested in institutions with small collections and/or minority serving institutions but anyone is welcome to apply.
Link to Application: https://goo.gl/forms/zXtIv2kVM0TNYiou1
Please contact Kari Harris at kharris@astate.edu for more information.
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