Research Ideas and Outcomes (May 2024)

Workshop Report: Supporting inclusive and sustainable collections-based research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS)

  • Andrea Weeks,
  • Elizabeth Collins,
  • Twanelle Majors,
  • Zack Murrell,
  • Deborah Paul,
  • Matthew Sheik,
  • David Shorthouse,
  • Shawn Zeringue-Krosnick

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e126532
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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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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