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|style="vertical-align:top;"|[[File:PlayVideo2.jpg|thumb|300px|link=https://vimeo.com/67570758|Introduction to iDigBio | |style="vertical-align:top;"|[[File:PlayVideo2.jpg|thumb|300px|link=https://vimeo.com/67570758|"Introduction to iDigBio" 02:04]] | ||
|rowspan="1" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top"|More than 1,600 natural history collections across the United States house over 1 billion biological specimens ranging from fungi to fish to fossils. This video describes the iDigBio project. It explains why digitized information and ready access to it are important, provides an overview of the digitization process and highlights some of the challenges faced when working with different types of natural history collections. | |rowspan="1" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top"|More than 1,600 natural history collections across the United States house over 1 billion biological specimens ranging from fungi to fish to fossils. This video describes the iDigBio project. It explains why digitized information and ready access to it are important, provides an overview of the digitization process and highlights some of the challenges faced when working with different types of natural history collections. | ||
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