This is fascinating! Thanks for sending this here, Sarah. Hopefully, I will be able to attend!
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour President Wikimedia District of Columbia Washington, DC, USA
2012/5/14 Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com
Hi there, this was pointed at towards DC folks. -Sarah
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [cultural-partners] Fwd: [Taxacom] Digitizing Science Collections: Science Briefing for Policymakers Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:56:15 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk Reply-To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partners@wikimedia.chcultural-partners@wikimedia.ch To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch
Of interest to our Washington DC colleagues?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julie Palakovich Carr jpalakovichcarr@aibs.org jpalakovichcarr@aibs.org Date: 14 May 2012 18:27 Subject: [Taxacom] Digitizing Science Collections: Science Briefing for Policymakers To: taxacom taxacom@mailman.nhm.ku.edu taxacom@mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Digitizing Science Collections: Unlocking Data for Research and Innovation
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00-3:00 pm 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
Natural science collections are research facilities and infrastructure that house irreplaceable specimens and data. New technologies and techniques make it possible to move this information from the shelves of a science collection to a computer in a research laboratory, classroom, or home.
This briefing will explore how scientists and natural science collections managers are working to digitize the nation's natural science collections to press forward the frontiers of research, spur new technology, and provide information to answer pressing societal problems.
The Value of Biological Collections to Science, Education, and the Economy Speaker: Dr. Mary Liz Jameson, Associate Professor at Wichita State University
Digitization: Exponentially Increasing Access to Collections Data Speaker: Dr. Larry Page, President of the Natural Science Collections Alliance and Curator of Fishes at Florida Museum of Natural History
Protecting and Using America’s Irreplaceable Resource Now and in the Future Speaker: Dr. Michael A. Mares, Director of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Professor of Zoology at University of Oklahoma
This event is open to the public RSVP at www.aibs.org/rsvp/digitization.html
Sponsored by the Natural Science Collections Alliance
Please share this invitation with your colleagues.
Julie Palakovich Carr Senior Public Policy Associate American Institute of Biological Sciences 1444 I Street, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005202-568-8117www.aibs.org
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