The SCC is extremely excited to announce that starting in November, we are kicking off our latest webinar series: the Specify Institutional Implementation Series.
Specify software was designed with the intention to support each institution’s unique needs and workflows. Due to that flexibility, institutions have a myriad of options for how to implement Specify for their collections, depending on how much data the collections want to share, how much access they want to provide to staff from other collections, how they want to support their collections, and how their staff will work with their data and each other.
The implementation choices can seem overwhelming, especially for institutions with multiple collections being brought into Specify. Knowing who to talk to, what questions to ask, and understanding the implications of all decisions will give decision makers a solid foundation to move forward with confidence.
The series will start with a presentation by SCC’s Grant Fitzsimmons on the different implementation options available, implications of the different options on data sharing and management, and questions to ask before choosing a path.
This series will continue with current Specify members who have already implemented Specify in their institution. It will explain the setup option that was chosen for their institution and delve into the factors that played into that decision. It will review the questions they asked, the questions they should have asked, the aspects of implementation that proved more difficult than anticipated, the aspects that were easier, the benefits gained from their approach, and the lessons they learned.
Webinars in Series:
Database Planning, Structure & Sharing in Specify
Grant Fitzsimmons, Technical Support Manager, Specify Collections Consortium
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Digital Infrastructure and Specify Setup
Andy Bentley, Ichthyology Collections Manager, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
December 3rd at 9 am CST/4 pm CET/5 pm SAST/11 pm AWST
Link: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Passcode: 12345