The Specify Collections Consortium is pleased to announce:
Managing and Mobilizing Collection Data with Specify Software, a symposium at next week’s 2020 SPNHC & ICOM NATHIST Annual Meeting.
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Times below are UTC+0. Start times for U.S. Time Zones: 8 AM EDT, 7 AM CDT, 6 AM MDT, 5 AM PDT.
Moderators: Norine Spears, Theresa Miller
| 12:00 | Extending the Use of Specify Software in South African Natural Science Collections | Willem Coetzer |
| 12:20 | Shifting a Collection Data Paradigm: Data Migration Between BG-BASE and Specify | Robyn Drinkwater |
| 12:40 | Digital Workflows Using Specify at the University of Michigan | Richard Rabeler |
| 13:00 | What Happens When You Let an Ecologist Loose on Your Specify Database: Semi-Automated Data Cleaning Using R | Talia Karim |
| 13:20 | What Does the Perfect Database for Collections Management Look Like? | Randy Singer |
| 13:40 | Publishing Fuzzy Data to the Web Portal: Why We Truncate | Leslie Skibinski |
SPNHC/ICOM events require (free) registration for Zoom credentials to be sent to you.
To register:https://spnhc.org/events/event/virtual-spnhc-icom-nathist-conference/
The Specify Symposium link is: https://spnhc.org/virtual-meeting-2020-program/virtual-meeting-2020-thursday/
We look forward to seeing you next week for this set of spirited and insightful presentations.
