The European MOBILISE COST Action sets out "to foster a cooperative network in Europe to support excellent research activities, and facilitate knowledge and technology transfer around natural science collections." As part of their efforts to prepare for the funding and implementation of DiSSCo, they are setting up their first First Training School on Digitization and Data Management of Collections!
Please join us on Wednesday 20 September at 12 PM EDT, 11 AM CDT for Crowdsourcing Basics: What is crowdsourcing, and will it work for your collection? - the Milwaukee Public Museum experience.
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room (Headsets for best experience!).
from Deb Paul @iDigBio
An overview. from Deb Paul, Dena Smith, and Vlad Blagoderov
Summary.
UPDATE: If you missed this webinar or would like to hear it again you can access the material via the recording http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p893lqq26wj/.
Once museum specimen collection data has been enhanced outside the collection database
iDigBio and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) co-hosted a Data Carpentry Workshop on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 – 30, 2014.
You can join us via Adobe Connect! http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/field2db
UPDATE: Link to Recording (in case you missed it): Partnering with libraries for data management
What: Webinar - Partnering with libraries for data management
What: Biodiversity Informatics Workshop - a Data Carpentry Bootcamp.
Host: National Evolutionary Synthesis Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Where: Durham, North Carolina
When: Thursday and Friday, May 8 - 9, 2014
Further information, instructors, and registration are available at the course website: http://nescent.github.io/2014-05-08-datacarpentry/
Twitter: #datacarpentry
