[Taxacom] Digitizing Science Collections: Science Briefing for Policymakers

[Julie Palakovich Carr]

Digitizing Science Collections: Unlocking Data for Research and Innovation
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00-3:00 pm
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
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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.
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The Value of Biological Collections to Science, Education, and the Economy
Speaker: Dr. Mary Liz Jameson, Associate Professor at Wichita State University
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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
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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
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This event is open to the public
RSVP at www.aibs.org/rsvp/digitization.html

Sponsored by the Natural Science Collections Alliance

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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