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Thursday, 11 June
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Symposium: Managing and Mobilizing Collection Data with Specify Software
Moderator: Norine Spears; Helpers: Theresa Miller, Jim Beach
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| 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 |
| Break | Vendor Q&A – Specify Collections Consortium – Watch here |
Education Share Fare – 14:30 to 16:30 – click for details
Moderator: Molly Phillips; Helpers: Anna Monfils, Jennifer Bauer, Erica Krimmel, Julia Robinson
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General (Polyphyly) Session 2
Moderator: Amanda Lawrence; Helper: Jenny Sayre Ramberg
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| 21:00 | The Chiapas Digitization Project 1 Year On | Lori Benson |
| 21:20 | New Museum Guides by the Swedish National Heritage Board Concerning Human Remains and Repatriation | Ingela Chef Holmberg & Kicki Eldh |
| 21:40 | Digital Initiative and Innovation: Coordinating Digital Asset Creation and Management for Medium to Small-Sized Museums | Alyson Wilkins |
| 22:00 | Adaptation and Evolution: Reassessment of Collection Use and Interpretation | Julianne Snider |
| 22:20 | ‘Yours and a Crowd’ | Yvette Harvey |
| 22:40 | Cost Efficient and Minimally Destructive Methodologies for Sequencing DNA From Museum Specimens | Jeffrey Streicher |
| Break | Vendor Q&A – Tru Vue, Inc – Watch here |
General (Mixed Collection) Session 3
Moderator: Shelley James; Helper: Sean Tudor
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