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<p>Whether a curator, manager of collections or data, researcher or technician, natural history collections staff are pressured to provide quantitative and qualitative assessments of the value and importance of the specimens along with the associated data that is generated, improved, and shared. In addition, individuals and institutions have a need to measure and attribute often unrecognized collections activities, from the identification of a specimen, georeferencing of a collection event, to the number of specimens gathered by a collector and used in downstream research. Even social media comes under the metric spotlight. The type of metric needed for reporting is audience dependent, and can range from directors and administrators, funding agencies, to managers and individuals monitoring career progress. Delivery of metrics by aggregators of biodiversity data requires careful analysis and interpretation. Choosing appropriate, consistent and meaningful metrics, efficiently harvesting values, and being able to visualize success (or issues) in appropriate ways, is challenging and often changing with technological advancements and public perceptions. In this symposium, speakers will share stories and strategies, of metrics readily available, in development, and only just dreamt about. We also plan to encourage those attending to share their metrics stories.</p>
<p>Whether a curator, manager of collections or data, researcher or technician, natural history collections staff are pressured to provide quantitative and qualitative assessments of the value and importance of the specimens along with the associated data that is generated, improved, and shared. In addition, individuals and institutions have a need to measure and attribute often unrecognized collections activities, from the identification of a specimen, georeferencing of a collection event, to the number of specimens gathered by a collector and used in downstream research. Even social media comes under the metric spotlight. The type of metric needed for reporting is audience dependent, and can range from directors and administrators, funding agencies, to managers and individuals monitoring career progress. Delivery of metrics by aggregators of biodiversity data requires careful analysis and interpretation. Choosing appropriate, consistent and meaningful metrics, efficiently harvesting values, and being able to visualize success (or issues) in appropriate ways, is challenging and often changing with technological advancements and public perceptions. In this symposium, speakers will share stories and strategies, of metrics readily available, in development, and only just dreamt about. We also plan to encourage those attending to share their metrics stories.</p>


Schedule ''in progress''
Schedule ''in progress'' so changes may occur.
 
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! colspan="3" style="font-weight:bold;" | Collecting Measures of Success: metrics for collections - a community conversation
Continental Ballroom A
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| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#cef2ce; width:20px;" | Time (CDT)
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#cef2ce; width:575px;" | Title
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| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | 1:30
| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | Welcome Discussion - Join us for this introductory conversation from SPNHC members worldwide talking about current efforts to mobilize collection metrics.
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| 1:45
| Measuring Impact by Empowering Users to Illustrate the Effort they Put in Natural History Collections
| David P Shorthouse
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| 2:00
| A Proposed Metadata  Standard for Recording and Sharing Attribution Informaiton
| Anne E Thessen
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| 2:15
| Success Metrics in Arctos  (and what we hope to build)
| Teresa J Mayfield-Meyer
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| 2:30
| Determining What Counts in Academia - Insights from a Small University Museum
| Carrie A Eaton
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| 2:45
| Dashboard Confessionals: Obstacles and challenges to measuring the success of a national scale digitization program
| Kevin J Love
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| 3:00
| Tweaking the System: using e-Journal technology and existing citation tools to increase the visibility and measureable impact of museums, curation, and specimen-based data
| Christopher J Marshall
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| style="background-color:#efefcb;" | 3:15
| style="background-color:#efefcb;" | Break
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| 3:30
| Measuring Success for Collections: Educational Products and Outcomes
| Anna K Monfils
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| 3:45
| From Scraps to Cache: A Case for Structure Education Collections
| Kimberly J Cook
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| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | 4:00
| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | Discussion
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| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | 4:15
| style="background-color:#f3d5b2;" | Discussion
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