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

The project, "Supporting inclusive and sustainable research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS) by connecting scientists and their specimens" is supported by a conference grant from the US National Science Foundation 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 Association of Southeastern Biologists and Botany 2023. 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 was held Sunday August 6, 2023 in an online format to accommodate participants who could not attend the in-person event at Botany 2023 on July 23, 2023 in Boise, Idaho. The rationale and curriculum for the workshop are described on the project website: https://github.com/aweeks3/SISRIS.