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
