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Published: 01-07-2016
iDigBio and the Small Collections Network (SCNet) are pleased to announce the upcoming Small Collections Symposium at SPNHC 2016, to be held in Berlin, June 20-25.
The 2016 Small Collections Symposium is entitled: Blending the Educational Resources of Small and Large Collections for Training the Next Generation of Museum Professionals.
We invite presentations from small and large...
Published: 01-06-2016
Gehen Sie zu der SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you going to the Society for Preservation of Natural History Collection's (SPNHC) 2016 Conference? It's in Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25, 2016.
Folks from iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), RBGE (http://www.rbge.org.uk/), and UO (https://uoregon.edu/) are convening a Symposium at SPNHC 2016. With this email, we'd like to...
Published: 12-16-2015
Dear iDigBio Enthusiasts,
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) is halfway through its fifth year and has many exciting plans for 2016. As we move forward, we will continue to engage the collections community, facilitate digitization and mobilization of data, and enhance the specimen data search portal. iDigBio’s priorities are to work with additional collections to...
Published: 12-10-2015
While world leaders were gathering in Paris for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21), more than 40 enthusiastic scientific researchers from iDigBio, NSF-funded Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), and collaborating institutions gathered at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St Louis, MO for a two-day workshop (2-3 December 2015) entitled Using Biodiversity Specimen...
Published: 11-30-2015
iDigBio’s third annual Retreat was held on November 20, 2015. For the second consecutive year, the Learning Center at the Austin Cary Forest Campus provided a beautiful backdrop to a productive day. The Retreat provided an opportunity for the diverse staff at iDigBio to celebrate the past year’s accomplishments and brainstorm about the future. With staff...
Published: 11-23-2015
The 2015 meeting of the Entomological Collections Network took place in the twin cities of Minneapolis, MN, 14-15 November. This stimulating and well organized meeting preceded the Entomological Society of America 2015 meetings, and had 165 participants. Times and activities are changing in the entomological collections world. The vast majority of the presentations this year were...
Published: 11-19-2015
The iDigBio Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach Working Group released the Libraries of Life mobile app and card set to great enthusiasm at the iDigBio Summit V in Arlington, VA. The fifteen cards each feature a different project funded by NSF's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, and each card launches a 3D model in the mobile device's...
Published: 11-19-2015
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...
Published: 11-16-2015
The fifth annual iDigBio Summit was held November 4-6, 2015, at the Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Participating were 136 scientists and students from 60 institutions representing 33 national and international biodiversity digitization initiatives. The venue was selected based on NSF's request, with over a dozen NSF personnel from BIO and GEO were able to attend. A major...
Published: 10-27-2015
Location: BIS (TDWG) 2015 Biodiversity Information Standards:
An amazing 2 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya.
by Deb Paul, input from Libby Ellwood and Matt Collins.
For the first time ever, The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Conference took place on the continent of Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya. Every 3 years, TDWG holds the annual meeting in a developing nation and uses the opportunity to...
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