[Taxacom] Digitizing Science Collections: Science Briefing for Policymakers

[John Grehan]

The irony seems to be that with the ever greater emphasis on databasing
collections there is a corresponding decrease in the value of researchers
to work that information.

John Grehan

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Julie Palakovich Carr <
jpalakovichcarr at aibs.org> wrote:

> 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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