Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections September 2017 - 20

Society Reports
updating and maintaining its standards with guidelines for
better documentation, including more detailed definitions and
examples to aid users in implementation. If you are interested
in biodiversity standards, I would urge you to sign up for the
TDWG-content mailing list as this is where the core discussion on standards takes place.
As I continue to stress, the standards being evaluated by
TDWG, and the applications that implement them, have a
direct impact on many SPNHC members involved with specimen data capture and curation. To foster this relationship, and
as the new Deputy Chair of TDWG, I am excited to announce
that TDWG and SPNHC will have our first joint meeting to
be held next year (August 2018) at the Otago Museum in
Dunedin, New Zealand! The theme will be "Collections &
Data in an Unstable World."
See http://otagomuseum.nz/blog/dunedin-set-to-welcome2018-spnhc-conference/
I am also excited to announce that the TDWG 2017 meeting
will be hosted by me and my colleagues in Ottawa, Canada,
October 1-6, with the theme "Data Integration in a Big Data
Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes,
and Environments." Please join us! http://www.tdwg.org/

Calling All Bloggers
Cracking the Collections, the EPG's blog
designed to discuss
natural history collections topics relevant
to both emerging and
experienced professionals, is seeking new blog post
submissions. Take a
look at the submission categories here.
We need the EPG
community and the overall SPNHC community to
contribute to make this blog a success! Contact the
Blog Team with a short (2-3 sentences) proposal on
the Guest Post Submissions page.

Respectfully submitted,
James Macklin, SPNHC representative to TDWG

Publications of Interest

Highlights from our bi-annual gathering include:

The Citations Subcommittee attempts to gather publications, both to aid those who do not have time to check for
themselves, do not know where to look, or do not have
easy library access.

frequent misidentifications in collections

determining the value of a collection

needs for curation as well as digitization

conservation and archive efforts

projects associated with natural history museums.

As citations are compiled, we annotate them with statements summarizing the highlights for easier searchability
and to call attention to the more important aspects of the
articles (or cautions about possibly outdated information).
We hope this increases the value of the citations listings
by making them more accessible, and assists in finding
the most up-to-date practices (as well as maintaining a
resource to check for past techniques/thoughts) for anyone interested in care and preservation of natural history
specimens.
We traditionally publish a list of highlights from our
bi-annual gathering, and provide a more detailed PDF version of our report on the SPNHC website.

20 * SPNHC Connection

Check them out at http://www.spnhc.org/80/citations.
We hope you find some useful publications among the listing on the SPNHC website.
Would you be willing to help the SPNHC Citations
Subcommittee? We are always looking for references/
publications/citations on topics of natural history collection care regardless of the source. If you have something
to submit, or if you have questions or concerns, please
contact the chair.
Respectfully Submitted,
Margaret Landis, Citations Subcommittee Chair

http://crackingthecollections.wordpress.com/blog-series/ http://www.otagomuseum.nz/blog/dunedin-set-to-welcome-2018-spnhc-conference/ http://www.otagomuseum.nz/blog/dunedin-set-to-welcome-2018-spnhc-conference/ http://crackingthecollections.wordpress.com/guest-post-submissions/ http://www.tdwg.org/ http://www.spnhc.org/80/citations

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