Carnegie Museum of Natural History Workshop 2024
Citizen science
Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
The aim of this free, online Digitization Academy course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public participation in digitization wor
Symposium on Major Motivations Across Scale for Digitizing Biodiversity
WeDigBio's Why Dig Bio symposium.
Three thought leaders reflect on major motivations to create digital information about biodiversity at international, national, and personal scales. What drives the creation and sharing of digital data about the three billion insects on pins, fish in jars, fossils in drawers, plants on sheets, and other specimen types curated by the world's museums, universities, government labs, botanical gardens, zoos, and elsewhere?
WeDigBio 2023 April Event
Introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event (Thursday–Sunday, April 13-16, 2023) and the broader Citizen Science Month!
Let us know your plans, so that your activities can appear on the calendar and we have enough time to get the WeDigBio stickers and tattoos to you for your participants.
Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
This free, online course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a biodiversity collections digitization project that successfully engages the public in online settings.
This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as collections managers, curators, student technicians, administrators, or others. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need prior knowledge of biodiversity informatics or specialized software.
Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
We are excited to announce the return of our popular professional development opportunity: Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections.
This free online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing.
Spring WeDigBio Event
Gather your friends, colleagues, students and family to mobilize natural history collections data during WeDigBio and support critical biodiversity research! This spring, WeDigBio will take place April 8-11, 2021.
Similar to last year, we are anticipating that most, if not all WeDigBio events will take place online, enabled by Zoom, Twitter, and other social platforms. The April 2020 event was the most productive yet and we’re hoping for another great turnout this year!
WeDigBio Strategic Planning Workshop
The workshop is scheduled for four days at the end of January and beginning of February. To enable everyone to participate at a time that is convenient, we have provided two two-hour options (9–11 a.m. ET and 3–5 p.m. ET) for each day. There will be groups meeting on the day’s topics at both of those times, and participants may join one or both of those timeslots each day.
Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections
Register here at EventBrite! You can register for any one webinar day and use the provided Zoom link for all days.
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
WeDigBio Lite expands reach and breaks records
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
Webinar: Energizing Classroom and WeDigBio Events with the BIOSPEX Scoreboard
Energizing Classroom and WeDigBio Events with the BIOSPEX Scoreboard
Friday, Sept 27, 3 p.m. EST, at https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/wedigbio
Speaker: Austin Mast, Moderator: Libby Ellwood
WeDigBio 2018
WeDigBio at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Come join us at the Florida Museum of Natural History as we help digitize natural history collections as part of the global event -- WeDigBio!
When: October 20, 2018, from 10am -1pm ET
Where: The Florida Museum of Natural History (University of Florida Cultural Plaza 3215 Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611-2710)
Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science - Symposium at EntSoc 2017
by Deborah Paul, Ana Dal Molin, and Pam Soltis, with contributions from all symposium presenters. Symposium from iDigBio and Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Overview.
WeDigBio 2017
WeDigBio 2016
Contributed by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast (iDigBio-Florida State University).
Florida Museum of Natural History WeDigBio Transcription Blitz
FLMNH WeDigBio Transcription Blitz!
Come join us October 22, 2016, from 11am-3pm at the Florida Museum of Natural History to help digitize Florida's biodiversity.
The transcription blitz is part of the Cultural Plaza Festival and will feature games, prizes, and a chance to interact with University of Florida scientists.
Learn more about WeDigBio!
iDigBio at ICE 2016 XXV Insect Expo Education and Outreach Event
iDigBio at ICE 2016 Insect Expo!
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
WeDigBio 2016 Call for Participation
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, WeDigBio 2015, engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries in transcribing specimen labels over four days.
Making it Count: Citizen Science Activities in the Classroom Contribute to Our Understanding of Biodiversity
Speaker: Austin Mast
Abstract: Citizen Science is public engagement in scientific research. This engagement enables data collection at unprecedented scales to address pressing scientific and social challenges while offering new ways to boost science literacy. See how two citizen science projects—online transcription of label data from historical museum specimens and neighborhood observations of present day diversity—generate valuable data and provide complementary activities for addressing biodiversity topics in the classroom.
The Inaugural WeDigBio Event: Global Event Advances Digitization and Science Literacy
Hundreds of volunteers around the world transcribed >30,000 specimen labels at 25 events over four days (Oct 22–25, 2015) in the first Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event. Events spanned a range of formal and informal education
venues, from middle-school and undergraduate science classrooms to county libraries to museums, universities, and botanical gardens, such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural Histor
WeDigBio 2016 Planning Workshop
Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event
Liberate centuries of data about life on earth! Contribute online either at a museum party or from a computer anywhere on the planet during the event. For more info, visit wedigbio.org.
Mapping Life: Quality Assessment of Novice and Computer Automated vs. Expert Georeferences
In TDWG Symposium C06: Citizen Science.
Tuesday, September 30, 2015
7:00-9:30am EST
Florida State University Transcription Blitz with Florida Native Plant Society
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of the Florida Native Plant Society Annual Conference. This was the third digitization blitz hosted by iDigBio, the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections Thematic Collections Network, and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium.
Call for Participants for Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event
Demo and Webinar: Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and Indexing of Historical Documents: tranScriptorium and the Transkribus Platform
Hi Everyone, this event is now over, but you can listen to the conversation in the Webinar Recording: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p65yarolyd7/
Simultaneous Transcription Blitzes a Success!
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