Of interest to our Washington DC colleagues?


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From: Julie  Palakovich Carr <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>


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 20005
202-568-8117
www.aibs.org

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