@article {450,
	title = {Collaborating with iDigBio on Grant Proposals},
	year = {2012},
	abstract = {As part of its role as national resource, iDigBio is often asked to comment on grant proposals to various funding agencies. This document provides guidance on topics related to collaboration with iDigBio, interaction with the iDigBio Portal, and commitment of services by iDigBio for grant proposals.},
	keywords = {documentation},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Collaborating-with-iDigBio-on-Grant-Proposals.pdf},
	author = {iDigBio}
}
@article {648,
	title = {GUID Guide},
	year = {2013},
	abstract = {A Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is a unique reference number used as an identifier. Complexities associated with specimens and associated, dynamic data in natural history collections have led to differences in opinions about how to create GUIDs and where they are required vs. recommended. This guide is intended to give data providers the information necessary to assign GUIDs that will allow iDigBio to ingest and share data. 

Suggestions for improvements to this guide are welcome, and can be inserted as comments on https://www.idigbio.org/content/guid-guide. 

A more general discussion on the use of identifiers in natural history collections is appropriate in iDigBio{\textquoteright}s community forums: https://www.idigbio.org/forums/identifiers-natural-history-collections.},
	keywords = {documentation, GUID},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/internal-docs/idigbio-standards/iDigBioGuidGuide-2013-06-26.pdf},
	author = {iDigBio}
}
@article {664,
	title = {iDigBio Data Ingestion Requirements and Guidelines},
	year = {2013},
	abstract = {This guide describes the formats and requirements for ingesting data into iDigBio.

iDigBio strives to make data ingestion into our infrastructure as easy as possible. To achieve this, we have identified two lowest common denominator export file formats that we will initially support for dataset ingestion.

The first of these formats is CSV, which is available as an export format requiring very little work from most databasing software.  When using CSV files, care must be taken with free-form text fields to ensure that all line breaks and quotes are escaped, and all commas within fields are enclosed inside a quoted field. Give a visual inspection to the exported file to verify that any diacritics in the data have been preserved, preferably by encoding to UTF-8.
The second format is the Darwin Core Archive file.
Topics include:
Supported File Formats, 
Data Export Process, 
Getting Your Data to iDigBio, 
Appendix A - Darwin Core Archive Processing, 
Appendix B - CSV Processing, 
Appendix C - Helpful Links for working with IPT and Darwin Core Archives.},
	keywords = {documentation},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-data-ingestion-requirements-and-guidelines},
	author = {Alex Thompson}
}
@article {793,
	title = {iDigBio Imaging Equipment Recommendations},
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {camera, copystand, documentation, lighting, software},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/small-herbarium2013/iDigBioImagingEquipmentRecommendations1_0.pdf},
	author = {Joanna McCaffrey}
}
@article {324,
	title = {Intro to iDigBio - PDF},
	year = {2012},
	abstract = {Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) is the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.},
	keywords = {ADBC, digitization, documentation, Natural history collections},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Intro_to_iDigBio.pdf},
	author = {iDigBio}
}
