This meeting brought together around 75 representatives from all partners and potential new stakeholders to showcase the highlights, outcomes and successes of SYNTHESYS3. It was also an opportunity to discuss tsustainability of the SYNTHESYS programme of working, inluding alignment with European and international initiatives. The full agenda is listed below with links to associated presentations.
Final Meeting Programme
Day One - Tuesday, 6th June 2017
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome ~ Vince Smith
10:10 – 10:30 SYNTHESYS Introduction & Overview ~ Vanessa Pike
10:30 – 11:00 Access Overview (NA1) ~ Kristina Gorman
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:30 Access Highlights
o Untangling the evolution of dolphin-like marine crocodiles during the Age of Dinosaurs ~ Mark Young
o Discovering a new rule in the evolution of mammals ~ Andrea Cardini
12:30 – 13:00 KEYNOTE: The value and role of natural history collections ~ Peter Raven
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 14:30 Innovation, Impact & Sustainability (NA3) ~ Jiří Kvaček
14:30 – 14:50 Highlights on sustainability ~ Christiane Quaisser
14:50 – 15:10 International and industrial collaboration ~ Deb Paul
15:10 – 15:40 BREAK
15:40 – 16:10 Moving from physical to digital collections (JRA) ~ Elspeth Haston
16:10 – 16:30 Inselect: liberating specimen images from multi-specimen scans with flexible metadata collection ~ Ben Price and Steen Dupont
16:30 – 16:50 Zoosphere ~ Bernhard Schurian
16:50 – 17:10 Setting collections data free with the power of the crowd ~ Margaret Gold
17:10 – 17:30 3D Digitisation ~ Jonathan Brecko
17:30 – 19:00 WINE RECEPTION
Day Two - Wednesday, 7t h June 2017
09:00 – 09:30 TEA / COFFEE
09:30 – 10:00 Collections Management Overview (NA2) ~ Thomas von Rintelen
10:30 – 10:20 Collections Self Assessment Tool (CSAT) Overview ~ Sue Ryder
10:20 – 10:40 Handbooks on Best Practice ~ Christiane Quaisser
10:40 – 11:00 Molecular collections ~ Thomas von Rintelen
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:00 Overview of Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCO) ~ Dimitris Kourea
12:00 – 12:30 SYNTHESYS Consultation Survey Results ~ Laurence Livermore
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Discussions (Transnational Access, Networking - Collections, Networking - Molecular Collections, Joint Research Activities)
15:00 – 15:30 BREAK
15:30 – 16:10 Discussion Summary / Feedback ~ Discussion Rapporteurs
· Transnational Access
· Networking - Collections
· Networking - Molecular Collections
· Joint Research Activities
16:10 – 16:20 FINAL DISCUSSIONS / CLOSE ~ Vince Smith
