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 This workshop's aim is to investigate current trends in collecting, and focus on best practices and skills development for supporting the collection of robust, fit-for-research-use data. This 4-day short course is designed to be hands-on and will mix lectures with field work and participant exercises and presentations.
+'''Goals'''
+*Investigate, observe, discover leading-edge trends in field collecting.
+*Provide examples of best practices for data sharing.
+*Convey the concept, importance, and methods for how to create reproducible research workflows.
+*Illustrate how data gets from the field into a collection database.
+*Discuss how data gets published and discovered.
+'''Objectives'''
+*Students participate in field collecting with subject-matter experts and present what changes they plan to make to their collecting practices in a workshop presentation.
+*Subject-matter experts share what they have learned from seeing / talking with others on this topic.
+*Students work through examples to demonstrate mastery of skills for transforming, enhancing, standardizing data.
 Our curriculum includes:
-*(synopsis here)
+*(synopsis of agenda here)
+#Day1
+#Day2
+#Day3
+#Day4
 The concepts, skills, and tools we teach are domain-independent, but example problem cases and datasets will be taken from organismal and evolutionary biology, biodiversity science, ecology, and environmental science.