Integrated Digitized Biocollections

Making data and images of millions of biological specimens available on the web.

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Data from biodiversity collections in the US

Biological Collections
are Invaluable.

Estimates suggest that Natural History museums curate between 1 and 2 billion specimens in the U.S. and 3 to 4 billion worldwide. Prior to the advent of digitization and data portals, these collections were siloed, located great distances apart geographically, and difficult to visit. Digitization has resolved lots of these challenges.

The data within these collections, accumulated across space and time, are becoming essential in analyses by ecologists, environmental biologists, in conservation, human health investigations, food security, climate change, the bioeconomy, and many more fields.

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iDigBio Sustainability

iDigBio has been proud to serve the biodiversity collections community and the NSF for the last 13 years. As we enter the last two years of our current grant, we want to understand the community’s needs and the appetite for the biodiversity community, philanthropists, government agences and corporations to sustain our work.

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Why Digitize?

Collections are the best evidence for the history of life on earth outside of nature itself.

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For Collections Community

Digitization Resources for curators, collections and digitization managers.

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Collections-based resources for undergrad, high school, and middle school classrooms and educators.

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Collections power cutting-edge research in food security, emerging diseases, and conservation.

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Envisioning a natural history collections action center. We held listening sessions. Here's what we heard.

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About iDigBio

The mission of iDigBio is to promote and catalyze digitization, mobilization, and use of data about biodiversity specimens through training, open data, and innovative uses of these data.

iDigBio was created as the national coordinating center in the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) grant in 2011 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Florida. Florida State University and the University of Kansas are grant subawardees. iDigBio is a GBIF Other Associate Participant Node.