Online Workshop for Supporting Inclusive and Sustainable Research Infrastructure for Systematics by Connecting Scientists and their Specimens

<p>The project, &quot;Supporting inclusive and sustainable research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS) by connecting scientists and their specimens&quot; is supported by a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247631&amp;HistoricalAwards=false">conference grant from the US National Science Foundation</a>&nbsp;to Dr. Andrea Weeks (George Mason University; Ted R. Bradley Herbarium), and Drs. Shawn Zeringue-Krosnick and Twanelle Majors (Tennessee Tech University; Hollister Herbarium). It supports two US-based workshops and symposia at the 2023 annual meetings of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sebiologists.org/asb-2023.html">Association of Southeastern Biologists</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://2023.botanyconference.org/">Botany 2023</a>. The purpose of the work is to share new practices that improve attribution of natural history specimens and highlight research advances in systematics that can be made as a consequence of improved people-data within biodiversity informatics databases. This four hour workshop&nbsp;was held Sunday August 6, 2023 in an online format to accommodate participants who could not attend the in-person event at Botany 2023&nbsp;on July 23, 2023 in Boise, Idaho. The rationale and curriculum for the workshop are described on the project website:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/aweeks3/SISRIS">https://github.com/aweeks3/SISRIS</a>.</p>