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Welcome to the Registration for SPNHC 2022


Online registration is fast and secure and will take no more than 5 minutes to complete. If you require help at any time, our contact details are at the bottom of each page.

Please have your credit/debit card (MasterCard, Visa and Visa Debit) to hand before you start. Unfortunately, we cannot accept American Express, Maestro or Purchasing Cards.


Registration Deadlines
Early Registration Deadline: 19th April 2022 (11:59pm BST)
Cancellation Deadline: 22nd April 2022 (11:59pm BST)

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Contact Details

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Demographic Information


To gain a clearer understanding of the delegate demographic we would be grateful if you could also provide answers to the questions below.

Age Group

Gender

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Do you consider yourself to be an emerging professional?

Are you interested in being assigned a mentor?

Are you interested in becoming a mentor?

How many SPNHC meetings have you attended?

Are you interested in any of the following standing committees?

Would you be interested in attending SPNHC 2022 virtually?

We are planning for the conference to be primarily a face to face meeting in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, Scotland.  We very much hope that colleagues from around the world can participate in person.  Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic however, we recognise that attending physically may not be possible for everyone, so we are also planning a virtual interactive element to the symposia of the conference, as well as offering some on-demand content after the congress.

Attendance at SPNHC 2022


SPNHC 2022 is delighted to offer the option to delegates to either attend the conference in person or attend virtually.

In person attendance will include the following:
• Attendance at all scientific sessions and entry to the exhibition area
• Electronic Conference Materials
• Morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch
• Access to the recordings of all plenary and symposia sessions for up to 3 months post conference.

Virtual attendance will include the following:
• A live stream of all plenary and symposia sessions
• Electronic Conference Materials
• Access to the recordings of all plenary and symposia sessions for up to 3 months post conference.



Please select how you would like to register for SPNHC 2022 from the options below.

Registration


The full registration fee for delegates includes:

• Attendance at all scientific sessions and entry to the exhibition area
• Conference material (electronic)
• Access to post conference recordings
• Morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch


If you would like to attend for a particular day only, please select the day rates. Day rates inlcude:

• Attendance at all sessions and entry to the exhibition area on that specific day
• Conference material (electronic) for that specific day
• Morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch for your chosen day

Please note: if you have selected a day rate and would like to register for any workshops or social functions you will have to pay an additional fee. If you are attending the conference on the Monday, you will be given complimentary attendance at the Welcome Reception.

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If you have selected a member rate, please confirm which organisation of which you are a member:

How long have you been a member of SPNHC?

How long have you been a member of BHL?

How long have you been a member of NatSCA?

Virtual Registration

Thank you for choosing to attend SPNHC 2022 virtually.

Please continue your registration to attend SPNHC 2022 as a virtual delegate below. 


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Please select what organisation you are a member of from the list below

Social Programme

Please indicate which social events you wish to attend.
Attendance at the Welcome Reception, Sponsors' Drinks Reception and Emerging Professionals' Luncheon is included in the registration fee. Booking for these events is required.
Tickets for all other social events can be purchased below.
Please note tickets must be pre-booked as places are limited.

Welcome Reception

Monday 6th June, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Please note: this event allows you to bring a guest. Please ensure you select the guest ticket as well as your own ticket if you would like to bring a guest.

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Emerging Professionals' Luncheon

Monday 6th June, Appleton Tower

Ceilidh Night

Tuesday 7th June, South Hall, Pollock Halls

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Gala Dinner

Wednesday 8th June, National Museums of Scotland
Please note: this event allows you to bring a guest. Please ensure you select the guest ticket as well as your own ticket if you would like to bring a guest.
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Pub Quiz

Thursday 9th June, The Counting House

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Field Trips

We have organised the following field trips as optional excursions during your stay in Edinburgh.

If you would like to attend any of the field trips, please purchase your tickets below.

Outlander Explorer - A One Day Tour with Highland Explorer Tours

Imagine walking in the footsteps of Jamie and Claire from the hit series Outlander, with a local Scottish Guide regaling all the gruesome history and stories that made this an epic hit. We take you on a journey to some of the most famous scenes from the hit series such as Midhope Castle the real-life Lallybroch, Doune Castle, the seat of Clan MacKenzie and Linlithgow Palace used as Wentworth Prison. Your guide will give you an insight into the history and stories of each location, making this the perfect trip for those looking for a quick Outlander fix. 

Jun 05, 2022 | 0845 - 1730
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45.00
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Holyrood Distillery Whisky & Gin Tour

Enjoy a guided flavour-forward experience, you will learn how gin and whisky are made, and about both the traditions and innovative new methods in craft distilling employed at Holyrood Distillery. Drinks and sampling throughout.
Jun 05, 2022 | 1400 - 1500
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16.50
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Edinburgh Walking Tour : Greg Kenicer - Plants & Habitats of Arthurs Seat

Visit Arthur’s Seat – an incredible Carboniferous volcano in the heart of Edinburgh for a 1.5 to 2-hour tour of its unusually rich botanical diversity. Learn what makes this landmark so suited to a wide variety of plants and find out about its natural and human heritage. Although we will not go to the summit, time will be available after to walk to the top for panoramic views (requires c. 1-2 hours additionally). A 4km walk on rough and boggy ground, with precipitous cliff edges and narrow gravel paths. Please dress for the weather and wear good, strong shoes or boots.

Jun 05, 2022 | 1000 - 1200
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Edinburgh Walking Tour: - Edinburgh Rocks: a walk through a billion years of Earth History with “Hills of Hame”

An easy walk around the city of Edinburgh, that starts with spectacular views across to Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags from Calton Hill, followed by a wend through a number of sites where rocks from across Scotland have been incorporated into monuments and buildings, including the Scottish Parliament and Our Dynamic Earth. The tour ends at the secluded Hutton Memorial Garden that lies close to the site of the home of the prominent Scottish geologist James Hutton. 
Jun 05, 2022 | 0930 - 1130
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Edinburgh Walking Tour: Greyfriars Kirk & Pavement Palaeontology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Included on the tour is a visit to Greyfriars Kirk – learn about the history of the Kirk, its place in Scottish history, how worship has developed there over the centuries and which famous figures were laid to rest in the Kirkyard.

 

 

 

Jun 05, 2022 | 1400 - 1600
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Maid of the Forth & Inchcolm Island

 Enjoy a 90-minute sightseeing cruise, where you will cruise under all 3 Forth Bridges, The Forth Bridge, The Forth Road Bridge, and the Queensferry Crossing and head down to Inchcolm Island where you will spend a further 90 minutes ashore. A 45 minute guided walking tour by the ‘Black Canon’ will bring the history of the Abbey and the monks that used to live there to life. Then enjoy the tranquil beaches and soak in the amazing views. Tea and cake provided.

Jun 05, 2022 | 1300 - 1800
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46.00
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Mercat Ghost Tour

A fun and light-hearted daytime walking tour of the Blair Street Underground Vaults – Edinburgh’s most haunted vaults, which Mercat Tours has exclusive access to. This spooky Edinburgh ghost tour is the ideal way to peek into the city’s ghostly past, and remember… things don’t only go bump in the night!
The true history of the Blair Street Underground Vaults is terrifying enough – so abandon thoughts of manufactured frights and make-believe. The skill is in the storytelling: these vaults witnessed the deeds of mischief-makers and murderers, vagrants, and torturers. It’s one of Edinburgh’s most haunted sites, where restless spirits still tread to this day.


Underground vaults
Follow your cloaked Mercat Tours storyteller through the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town. These dark and dreary streets are untouched by daylight, filled with a strange silence – their damp walls carrying only the faintest echo of the crowds on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
With the scene set, you’ll descend into the depths of the city – and listen in horror to the dark and sinister events which took place over the years. Torture. Murder. Hangings. From body snatchers to real-life characters of the city, you’ll be gripped by the true tales that lie hidden beneath Edinburgh’s streets, in the underground vaults.
Perhaps you’ll experience a cold breath on the back of your neck, or a whisper, perhaps even a flicker – then silence. It’s all the more chilling for being absolutely real: there are no tricks or jump scares on our Edinburgh ghost tours.
Please Note: To give a fully immersive experience, we'll provide a personal audio device. Your Storyteller will use a headset with microphone to ensure you hear every word in the hush of Edinburgh's haunted Old Town. Please do bring your own headphones/earphones - it's a standard 3.5mm audio jack..

 

 

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SPNHC 2022 Tours

We would be delighted if you can join us on the optional tours offered below. All the tours, except the Garden Tour, are complimentary but have limited places, therefore it is essential that you book your place on the tour(s).

Please be aware when booking tours that the sites are quite spread out, and you should allow travel time to get between sites for workshops/tours/lunch. Lunch and the physical/virtual symposia are at Appleton Tower. Workshops will mostly be at Appleton Tower, but some are in other locations.

Example travel times on public transport (may involve some walking) 

University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower - National Museums Collections Centre EH5 1JA- approx 40 mins

University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower - National Museums Scotland galleries/library- 10 minute walk

University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower - Royal Botanic Garden (East Gate)- approx 30 minutes

National Museums Collections Centre EH5 1JA - Royal Botanic Garden (East Gate)- approx 15 minutes

Please visit Traveline Scotland for more information.


National Museums Scotland Library Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

Visit the National Museums research library to see some of the rare natural history books in the collection (specific items available on request, see below).

National Museums Scotland library collection began in 1781 and has benefited greatly from major bequests of notable libraries by the Scottish naturalist J. A. Harvie-Brown and A. E. Salisbury (Mollusca).  The manuscript collections include the correspondence, field notes and journals of natural historians including J. A. Harvie-Brown; the naturalist and ornithologist William Jardine; and the polar explorer, oceanographer and naturalist William Speirs Bruce.  The library collection contains material to support historical research in geology and the natural sciences, taxonomic works in the major research areas of the zoological collections, and  a great many early volumes of significant works of zoological illustration from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The library catalogue can be found at http://libcat.nms.ac.uk .  If you wish to see any item from the collection please contact library@nms.ac.uk in advance and we will have it ready for you to consult.


National Museums Scotland Conservation labs Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

The National Museums Collection Centre has facilities for collection research and access as well as conservation and scientific laboratories. Analytical equipment ranges from PDA-UPLC, XRF, SEM-EDX to XRD and FTIR. This tour focuses on our recently completed extension housing conservation and science laboratories. You will meet a range of specialists working in these laboratories including those from paper conservation, geological specimen preparation, collection science and natural sciences.


National Museums Scotland Invertebrate Biology collection Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

The Invertebrate Collections can be broadly divided into Insects (Entomology) and Marine Invertebrates. In addition there are discrete collections of other terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates 

The Marine Invertebrate collections (nearly 4 Million specimens) include several historically significant collections e.g. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, and more recent scientifically important collections through collaboration with a variety of institutions with an emphasis on retaining samples from British waters. These are an invaluable resource for the research of British marine fauna, especially from the North Atlantic deep sea. You can find out more about the development of the marine invertebrate collections here.

The Invertebrate Section also includes an extensive Entomological collection containing a further two million specimens from all over the world with particular strengths in Lepidoptera, Odonata, Hymenoptera, small orders and certain Coleoptera and Diptera. Although worldwide in scope, the collection is particularly rich in Scottish material and the collection is frequently consulted for this reason. You can find out more about the development of the entomology collections here.


National Museums Scotland Vertebrate Biology collections Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

We have around 50,000 mammals in our scientific collections. Most of these are skeletons, skins and specimens preserved in alcohol. In addition we have extensive collections of animal bone from archaeological sites and about 2,200 Quaternary fossil specimens.

Our marine mammal collection, with over 3,000 specimens, is one of the most important in the world. There are examples of large baleen and toothed whales, including many specimens collected by Robert Knox and Sir William Turner in the 19th and early 20th centuries.  

There are approximately 100,000 bird items, comprising mainly skins and egg sets, and fewer skeletons and spirit specimens. Together they give a broad representation of species from around the world. We have about 36,000 clutches of birds’ eggs, which are mainly from the UK and the rest of the western Palaearctic.  These date from the 1790s to the present day.  Important collections include H.M.S. Blair, D. Brown & D. Humphrey, J.J. Dalgleish, L. Dufresne, H.W. Feilden & J.A. Harvie-Brown, G.H.M. Franklin, F. Grant, K.C. Jacob, O.A.J. Lee, J.H. McNeile, R. Nichols, J. Piers Dutton, D.A. Ratcliffe, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and W. Serle.  The McNeile collection is exceptional for the quality of its associated archive as well as its wide geographical coverage of the western Palaearctic.

Reptiles, amphibians and fishes are mostly kept as spirit specimens in ethanol or formalin and our collections are dominated by two large historical acquisitions.  The Sir Andrew Smith collection dates from 1859 and comprises 1,700 lots from around the world, but it is particularly strong in specimens from South Africa. The Jeremy Anderson collection comprises about 1,200 lots of specimens collected in Baluchistan in the 1960s-70s.  Other important collections include Australian specimens from Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn in 1925 and snakes from Thomas Traill in 1869.



National Museums Scotland Palaeobiology collections Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

The Palaeobiology collections are housed in a modern purpose-built environmentally-controlled store, and comprise around 250,000 specimens, of which two per cent are important type or figured specimens. The collection covers all the major groups of fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, plants and trace fossils. Many of the specimens were collected from around the world from the early nineteenth century onwards, but particularly from important Scottish Palaeozoic localities. Many of the specimens are historically important and were collected by early pioneers of Scottish Palaeontology such as Hugh Miller and Charles Peach.  The collections continue to be studied by the Palaeobiology team and visiting researchers. Scotland’s Palaeozoic rocks represent important windows through which crucial stages in the early evolution of life on Earth can be viewed.  In particular, our collections are renowned worldwide for specimens of eurypterids and plants, and our fossil fish and early tetrapod collections are among the largest and most diverse in the world.


National Museums Scotland Earth Science collections Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

The Earth Systems collection of around 70,000 specimens represents Scotland’s geological history and global mineralogical diversity. Our collection of minerals, meteorites and rocks includes everything from 4.65 Byr old meteorites through to anthropogenic minerals. We have nearly 2,000 mineral species as per the International Mineralogical Association classification.  

Notable collections include; minerals from important historical mining regions in or near Scotland, an internationally renowned agate collection, the Heddle Collection of Scottish minerals, many unusual igneous rocks from inaccessible regions, and a small but diverse meteorite collection (including three of the four known Scottish meteorites).

Altogether we have approximately 70% of all known mineral species from Scotland including good representation from the Leadhills/Wanlockhead, Strontian, Alva and Talcoty mines, to name a few. Our igneous suites include a good coverage of St Kilda island rocks and Gardar Suite rocks from Greenland. Important historical specimens include eastern Africa ores collected by David Livingstone, the first Beagle expedition, and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.



Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh- Living Collection Tour

Thursday, 9th June 2022

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a highlight of any visit to the Scottish Capital. A national treasure of Scotland, this spectacular Living Collection of plants is over 350 years old.

Visitors can experience an extravaganza of plants from around the world, learn about the Garden's rich and diverse Living Collection and discover a history dating back to the 17th century.

Set in over 70 acres of beautiful landscape and just one mile north of the city centre, the Garden offers superb panoramic views of the city skyline featuring Edinburgh Castle. The Botanics, as the Garden is affectionately known locally, is breath-taking at any time of year.

While work is progressing on the Edinburgh Biomes Project there will be reduced access to the Garden. If you would like to find out more information about this project please visit the website.

Please note out Glasshouses are closed for restoration.

To find out about accessibility at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh please click here.  


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Workshops


SPNHC 2022 are delighted to offer delegates the choice to attend several educational workshops.

It is essential you book your place in advance for any workshop(s) you wish to attend. Please select which workshop(s) you would like to attend from the list below.

(£)

Workshop - Application of BIOfid tools for extracting data from biodiversity literature

Jun 09, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
In an ideal world, extraction of machine-readable data and knowledge from natural-language biodiversity literature would be done automatically, but not so currently. The BIOfid project has developed some tools that can help with important parts of this highly demanding task, while certain parts of the workflow cannot be automated yet. BIOfid focuses on the 20th century legacy literature, a large part of which is only available in printed form. In this workshop, we will present the current state of the art in mobilisation of data from our corpus, as well as some challenges ahead of us.
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10.00
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Workshop - Art in the Museum: Natural Science Illustration and Artist Residency Programs

Jun 09, 2022 | 0930 - 1230
This is an introductory workshop in scientific illustration, open to all experience levels. The main objective of the workshop is to teach attendees observational illustration techniques, but to also place scientific illustration in a historical context and discuss the role that artists can play in collection spaces. In this technology-driven era, some question the place of illustration in the realm of advanced photography and imaging techniques. We strive to make a case for scientific illustration: what can it provide that photography cannot, how scientists and educators can benefit from a collaborative relationship with artists, examples of institutions that successfully incorporate scientific illustration, and how artists can help to bring museum collections to the public through their work. Attendees will receive a packet of workshop materials and will also have the option to display their work during the conference.
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25.00
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Workshop - Capturing community expertise: A SPNHC wiki edit-a-thon

Jun 09, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
The SPNHC wiki edit-a-thon is a collaborative workshop hosted by iDigBio and the SPNHC Best Practices Committees with the aim to improve and expand SPNHC wiki content (http://spnhc.biowikifarm.net/wiki/). This wiki serves as an open-access platform for museum professionals to discover and contribute information, procedures, best practices, and resources relating to the preservation and management of natural history collections. Following a brief training, workshop attendees will participate in formatting and uploading pre-generated content, filling information gaps on existing wiki pages, and generating new page content. We welcome participants from all disciplines, roles, and experience levels.

Throughout the workshop, attendees can expect to work independently or collaboratively on assigned content or on topic(s) of their choosing. In addition to participant-generated themes, the following topics represent areas we hope to enhance on the SPNHC wiki: digitization including digital imaging (especially expanding on 3D imaging), data aggregation, database migration, data licensing, and the use of persistent identifiers in Natural History Collections.
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0.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Cleaning Your Collections: Tips for Non-Conservators

Jun 10, 2022 | 0900 - 1230
This conservator-led workshop will guide non-conservators on basic handling and cleaning of different types of collections and materials found in natural history museums. Workshop content will be heavily dictated by participant needs: a pre-workshop survey will reveal areas of focus within archival materials and special collections, scientific and educational collections, and exhibitry materials. In addition to learning the methods used in cleaning collections, the workshop will also cover common condition issues for each material, helping the attendee determine which objects should be reserved for conservation care, and which can be cared for by dedicated collections staff. Participants will be given digital handouts of the content after the workshop. 
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10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Collection space in the 21st century and beyond

Jun 09, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
Each year institutions around the globe are planning new buildings or redeveloping existing buildings. The development of collection space was identified as one of the most common concerns of collection managers in a survey of CETAF member institutions. Each institute will consider different factors for their collection space planning. This workshop aims to discover the main factors that guide collection space planning and highlight best practices. The workshop will bring people together to share experiences and challenges. We will build on the proposed SPNHC symposium on Collection Space which will include case studies of recent collection space development and planning processes. Wwe will seek input both from those who have recently redeveloped collection space and those who are beginning to plan such development.
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10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Community engagement workshop on the new taxonomic backbone development by Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Catalogue of Life (COL)

Jun 09, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
GBIF and COL have collaboratively built a shared infrastructure for managing and publishing taxonomic lists called Checklistbank. This infrastructure underpins the delivery of two main products. First it is used to build the ongoing monthly releases of the Catalogue of Life Checklist and secondly it will be used to build GBIF’s taxonomic backbone, the organizing structure for all occurrences available through GBIF. The Checklistbank will become the repository for all checklists shared with GBIF, including existing taxonomic checklists (currently called Global Species Databases) that contribute to the COL, other taxonomic lists such as regional checklists, and species lists including taxonomic treatments from from literature and sequence based Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs).

This collaboration has also built new tools to support the validation and curation of taxonomic information including the ability to compare across checklists. These tools allow data managers to assess the differences between any taxonomies in the Checklistbank, including comparisons to the GBIF taxonomic backbone and the occurrences that are indexed against it. These comparison tools allow an understanding of how the inclusion of new taxonomic information, in the form of a checklist, could improve a larger aggregated checklist like COL or the interpretation of GBIF occurrence data.

These tools have already been deployed in Checklistbank for early testers, but these tools have not yet been presented widely - and documentation/tutorials are currently being developed. This workshop will present these tools to the SPNCH community for early testing and use along with a detailed presentation of the new Checklistbank infrastructure and its operation.
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10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Curating community knowledge of indigenous medicinal plants in global tree planting and biodiversity net gain activities

Jun 10, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
The objective is to develop new criteria for the curation of community knowledge of indigenous medicinal plants in light of large scale tree planting for voluntary carbon markets, biodiversity net gain projects and rural livelihood creation.
Co-production workshop based on experiences of community projects in other parts of the world and learning from The Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS) for ownership, lease or rights to use Scotland's national forests.

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0.00
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Workshop - Digital Specimens and Extending them - Steps towards Implementation

Jun 09, 2022 | 0900 - 1030
Specimens and their data play a vital role in science to find solutions for the major problems that threaten to affect the daily life of everybody: environmental change and global warming, depletion of natural resources, food security and global health issues. Species can act as a time capsule to study long-term change processes such as climate change and evolution. However, access to specimen objects is difficult. Spread over thousands of facilities and often not yet digitized, it is difficult to find which specimens exist where , to extract the data associated with these specimens, and even more difficult to combine specimen data,, with other scientific data, particularly if that data was derived from the specimens, such as sequencing data or material citations.

In the last decade there has been much focus internationally on digitizing specimens and improving the FAIRness of specimen data, which resulted in a growing number of specimens now having a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR) digital representation on the internet. This provides new opportunities to extend and make this data more valuable for research by linking it to data derived from the tangible object itself. Combined with a FAIR Digital Object infrastructure, the data can be transformed into actionable units, digital specimen objects that act as a surrogate for their physical counterparts, bringing even more new possibilities such as Artificial Intelligence fueled specimen data refinery and community curation to speed up digitization, determinations and improve data quality.

Such Digital Extended Specimens (DES) are essential: humanity urgently needs biodiversity data for more adapted decision-making while specimen data needs to become interconnected as solutions for current challenges require interdisciplinary science. DES are also needed for Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework monitoring and Access and Benefit Sharing.
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10.00
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Workshop - DINA Collection Management - Hands-On Workshop

Jun 09, 2022 | 1100 - 1230
DINA (“DIgital information system for NAtural history data”, https://dina-project.net) is a framework for like-minded practitioners of natural history collections to collaborate on the development of distributed, open source software that empowers and sustains collections management. Target collections include zoology, botany, mycology, geology, paleontology, and living collections.

The DINA Consortium focuses on an open source software philosophy and on community-driven open development. Contributors share their development resources and expertise for the benefit of all participants. The DINA System is explicitly designed as a loosely coupled set of web-enabled modules. At its core, this modular ecosystem includes strict guidelines for the structure of Web application programming interfaces (APIs), which guarantees the interoperability of all components (https://github.com/DINA-Web).

One of the overarching reasons to develop the DINA collection management system is the need to better model complex relationships between collection objects (typically specimens) involving their derivatives, preparations and storage, and to document their provenance.

We will demonstrate the enhancements made in the DINA data model to better represent these relationships and the influence it has on the management and digitization of these objects, and on the sharing of information.

In this workshop we will present the first release version of the DINA system, its User Interface and API (Application Programming Interface) and allow the audience to “play” and try out the system in a dedicated demo instance.
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10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Dirty Data Dancing: Cleaning, standardization, and publishing for the judges

Jun 10, 2022 | 0900 - 1700
A stream-lined version of the 2019 sold-out workshop will expose participants to hands-on exploration of biodiversity standards, Darwin Core, data cleaning, and data publishing using IPT. Datasets will be provided but it is recommended that participants bring data from their own collections.
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25.00
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Workshop - People are unique, unique people are priceless

Jun 09, 2022 | 0900 - 1230
We aim to communicate current progress on the identification of people linked to collections. We will start with an introduction to the current state of play and provide information on stable identifiers for people, such as ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata. Then we will present our vision of the future where information on people will make collections more accessible and valuable. Following this we will work online, looking at biographical data and doing some practical disambiguation. Lastly, we will discuss how current practices and systems can be improved, with the aim of making recommendations to the different stakeholders.

This workshop will look at best practises for disambiguation of people. Evaluating methods and considering the reliability with which disambiguation can be achieved. We will look at the resources required for disambiguation, the quality of data on specimens and the places to store disambiguated data permanently. For example, are the data models of collection management systems sufficient for capturing person information.

If we have time we will do some hands-on disambiguation as a means to inform our work and also to train beginners to this field. To do this we would use online open tools such as Bionomia (https://bionomia.net/), Biodiversity Heritage Library (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/) and Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/). Participants would find, as yet, unattributed names on specimens in Bionomia and then trackdown sources of information on those people in literature. This will then be documented in Wikidata.
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10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Shipping Workshop

Jun 10, 2022 | 0900 - 1700
Following SPHNC’s Strategic Plan 2013, the Legislations and Regulations Committee is pleased to offer professional training for collection managers, registrars, and other interested persons in the legally compliant shipping of collection materials, import and export of biological material from field work and proper documentation of shipments. The full day workshop covers all legal aspects of shipping collection material including customs law, veterinary/phytosanitary regulations, species protection legislation, Dangerous Goods Regulations and an IATA-Training on Special Provision A180.
The transport and transfer of biological material is regulated on different levels by national and international laws and regulations. Recent amendments to existing legal frameworks, stricter controls and customs checks increase the complexity to a proper shipping documentation. Moreover, it gets increasingly difficult to translate this comprehensive information into relevant fields of air waybills or browser-supported online-tools of large shipping companies. As a result, customs clearance and import can be delayed, but if things go seriously wrong, collection materials can get damaged or confiscated during inspection or are even destroyed, as the loss of herbarium material in Australia demonstrates.
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25.00
TOTAL

Workshop - Strictly Planning: How to Organize a Digitization Project and Fill your Dance Card.

Jun 09, 2022 | 0900 - 1230
Planning a Digitization Project Without Forgetting Anyone.

This workshop will help participants to understand the different stages and stakeholders that should be taken into account when planning a digitization and data mobilization project, and how to adapt them to our specific situation.
AMOUNT
10.00
TOTAL

Workshop - The Strategy Surgery: Strategic Management of Natural Science Collections.

Jun 10, 2022 | 0900 - 1230
Imagine you have just begun managing a team with responsibility for a collection of natural science objects preserved in a variety of ways. Your director is driving you to make changes, to improve the collections and make them accessible to a wide range of users. Perhaps your background lies elsewhere in the museum sector and this natural science collection is part of a broader collection for which you have responsibility. Or, maybe you have spent some years as a researcher using the collections and now you are managing them. Whatever your personal circumstances, you will be confronted with a baffling array of questions. We as authors were once in this situation and in this workshop we share our experience in strategic planning and tools we have developed to help that process. The workshop content is closely linked to the authors’ book Strategic Management of Natural Science Collections (Huxley et al 2021)
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10.00
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Workshop - The art and science of imaging specimens: creativity, imagination and detail.

Jun 10, 2022 | 1330 - 1700
Natural Science collections often need good pictures in order to promote their specimens, prepare marketing and submit scientific papers. The requirements for producing an image suitable for a paper may be very different from those needed for a more creative endeavour. For image analysis and preparing a type specimen you want crisp illumination and pin sharp focus. For advertising an exhibition, you may want moody lighting and parts of the image that are blurred. Would it look better with a colour cast or with shadows? How much of it should be in darkness? Are there any other methods, such as using mirrors or set dressing that will make this object stand out?
Do I need a professional to come and do this or what happens if my budget is too tight to allow me to do anything other than use the most basic equipment?
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10.00
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Workshop - Workshop on Nagoya Protocol and Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)

Jun 09, 2022 | 0900 - 1230
The number of states regulating access to genetic resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) or the Nagoya Protocol (NP) is increasing steadily. Currently, 131 countries are party to the NP, and the diversity of implemented national access laws ranges widely from “free access” to strict control. The successful management of key NP-requirements will be essential for the future work of collections managers.
Together with CETAF’s Legislations & Regulations Working Group, the Legislations and Regulations Committee of SPHNC is pleased to offer a workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) and the Nagoya Protocol.

The aims of the half day workshop are to discuss management needs, requirements to meet the benefit-sharing needs, and regulatory demands. The workshop covers the following items:
- basics on the CBD, the NP and resulting ABS-obligations.
- brief overview on the current situation (including the current discussion on Digital Sequence Information and latest DSI-submissions ).
- responsibilities of Natural History Collections and collection management
- the CETAF Code of Conduct as a helpful tool to evaluate current internal workflows and existing procedures
- need for more in-depth training for the SPNHC membership in a “train the trainer” format (already established for CETAF members).

Biodiversity research and Natural History Collections play a key role in the implementation of the CBD and NP. They access and share genetic resources, and provide and aggregate data and information that help to conserve biodiversity and use it sustainably. A key challenge is to reverse developing barriers, manage ABS effectively, and use the information generated to support CBD implementation. The CETAF Code of Conduct builds on established workflows from major CETAF members, and offers guidance and Best Practice supporting collections in their evaluation and adjustment of existing procedures.
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10.00
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