London’s Natural History Museum gets nearly $200 million to digitize many millions of specimens. At the minimum, the NHM effort, like others around the world, expects to digitally record all the details from specimen labels—such as when and where it […]
Findability
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Persistent Identifiers: Developing a US National Strategy
The Research Data Alliance and the Open Research Funders Group have partnered to issue a report that highlights persistent identifies, their associated metadata, and the systems that connect them as a means to advance open scholarship in the United States. […]
All-Network Meeting
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NoCTURN 2024 Annual In-Person/Hybrid Meeting
May 8-10University of FloridaGainesville, Florida The 2024 annual NoCTURN in-person/hybrid meeting is right around the corner! Here’s some information about the meeting venue, parking, hotels, airports, and things to see/eat/do. The meeting agenda will be finalized and sent out soon. […]
Accessibility / Basic & Applied Research / Education & Outreach / In the News / Open Science / Reuse
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Thousands of natural history specimens that you can access for free!
We are in an era of digital innovation, and today the barriers to accessing the wonders of the natural world have been shattered like never before. Spearheaded by scientists at the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History, a […]
Job Postings
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Research Curator of Paleontology, Milwaukee Public Museum
There is a full-time Research Curator of Paleontology position available at the Milwaukee Public Museum (Milwaukee, WI). This is not an explicitly “CT” job, but many of our members are paleontologists or have paleontolgists in their networks—and certainly having familiarity […]
Accessibility / Basic & Applied Research / Coordination / Education & Outreach / Findability / Interoperability / Open Science / Reuse / Updates / Vendors & Industry
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By RSS, Google Alerts, in Slack, or however you like. You can now keep up with NoCTURN activitities on your terms.
NoCTURN Blog Posts now autopopulate to the NoCTURN Slack. If you prefer, however, you can also save the URL of the whole Blog or just select categories (click the header at the top of a post for all posts in […]
All-Network Meeting
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Register for the May 2024 All-Network Meeting!
Would you like to join us at the University of Florida this May (8th–10th) for the NoCTURN All-Network meeting? We have travel funding available! Fill out the registration form here (access to NoCTURN Slack required for the link to resolve—if […]
Updates
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Thank you to the Earth Science Information Partners!
Thank you to all who participated in last week’s virtual Earth Science Information Partners meeting! NoCTURN was thrilled to be part of the two sessions: • Managing, Publishing, and Archiving Imagery in the Earth Sciences • Leveraging Analytical Laboratories to […]
Training
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UTCT Bio/Paleo Short Course 2024
The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility (UTCT) will host a short course on the fundamentals of acquisition, visualization, and analysis of high-resolution X-ray CT (HRXCT) data for biological and paleontological specimens April 17-19, 2024 in Austin, TX. This short course […]