| Abstract | The goal of this session is to enhance international collaboration in the Pacfἰc by bringing together managers
of biological collections, data managers, researchers, and educators to share stories about the current
progress of digitization of biological collections from the Asia-Paciἰc region, and communicate current
research projects that are using biological collections data from climate change, to invasive species
distribution, to systematics. The need for sustainable digitization and data archiving in the region will be
discussed. Building upon sessions held at the Paciἰc Science Inter-Congress, Suva in 2013 and the DigBio-sponsored
workshop held in Hawaii in 2014 (https://www.idigbio.org/content/biological-collections-digitization-
paciἰc-0), an outcome of this session is to provide resources, ideas, support and tools for the
digitization of biological collections from the Paciἰc region, housed both locally and internationally, and
encourage the mobilization of high quality biological collections data for specimen management,
curation, and research purposes. The tools, information and data available through the iDigBio website and
data portal (www.idigbio.org) will be demonstrated. |
