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Workshop Report: Supporting inclusive and sustainable collections-based research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS)
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- 1. George Mason University, Department of Biology, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America
- 2. Tennessee Technological University, Department of Chemistry, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States of America
- 3. Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
- 4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Prairie Research Institute, Illinois Natural History Survey, Species Profile Group, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
- 5. Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
- 6. Independent, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
- 7. Tennessee Technological University, Department of Biology, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States of America
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We created and delivered a workshop and symposium series for biologists at all career stages focused on the skills and practices needed to sustain natural history specimen attribution and citation. The name of the workshop and symposium series, SISRIS, reflected our ultimate goal of effecting community-level change by sharing skills and practices that can support inclusive and sustainable (collections-based) research infrastructure for systematics. We report here the rationale for SISRIS, its learning objectives for participants and its results, including the assessment of outcomes from three iterations of the workshop held in 2023. The SISRIS workshops and symposia were held in person at the annual meeting of the Association for Southeastern Biologists in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Botany 2023 in Boise, Idaho. A stand-alone SISRIS workshop was held online later to accommodate individuals who were unable to travel to the in-person events.
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