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Published: 10-14-2015
iDigBio was delighted with Axiell's generous invitation to present a half-day digitization workshop at the annual meeting of the EMu user group Natural History Special Interest Group (NHSIG), held October 7 at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. After determining via survey what EMu users would be interested in hearing about, we fashioned the following well-received agenda:
Intro to the...
Published: 10-11-2015
by Heather Appleby, former undergrad intern, Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network (TTD-TCN). Katja Seltmann (TTD-TCN), Deb Paul, Alex Thompson, and Matt Collins Eds.
Hi Everyone, I'm Heather Appleby. I was an undergraduate intern for the Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network (TTD-TCN) for 10 weeks in the summer of 2015. My internship focused on learning the fundamentals of R, while...
Published: 10-07-2015
More than 60 students from eleven colleges and universities in North and South Carolina descended on the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) in Raleigh, October 2-3, 2015, to learn about careers and graduate school opportunities in the biological sciences. iDigBio and NCMNS co-hosted the event, which featured intensive career shadowing opportunities within the museum for two...
Published: 09-30-2015
from Deb Paul @iDigBio
Thirty-one folks from all over the USA just spent 3 biodiversity-informatics-information-filled days at Arizona State University (ASU) for the iDigBio Workshop: Managing NHC Data for Global Discoverability. Head over to Facebook for more Views from the Workshop.
Nico Franz, Director of the ASU Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) at ASU, supplied extra...
Published: 09-10-2015
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Published: 08-07-2015
On July 26, 2015, iDigBio hosted an all-day ecological niche modeling (ENM) workshop at Botany 2015, the joint annual conference hosted by the Botanical Society of America, Plant Canada, and their affiliated societies, in Edmonton, Alberta. Over 40 participants attended, ranging from undergraduates to distinguished professors. iDigBio co-PI and Florida Museum of Natural History Distinguished...
Published: 08-04-2015
iDigBio API Hackathon Report Blog
iDigBio hosted a three-day hackathon on June 3-5, 2015, in Gainesville, Florida, focused on the development and integration of applications that use iDigBio APIs to ingest, access, visualize and search biocollections data. The Hackathon was a great success based on a survey of the participants, and outcomes include 16 code repositories, with code developed...
Published: 07-07-2015
iDigBio was pleased to support the mammal collections digitization workshop in collaboration with the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) at the ASM annual meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, June 12, 2015. Approximately 25 participants attended the pre-conference workshop including a number of collections professionals just beginning the digitization process. The workshop agenda...
Published: 06-26-2015
We (Deb Paul, Cathy Bester, and Molly Phillips) had a fun and productive time staffing the iDigBio exhibit at the 95th Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, June 12-15, 2015. We set up the 10’ exhibit with the TV displaying the iDigBio Explore Research video series (thank you to Kevin Love and Chris Baker for helping us set up!). During...
Published: 06-17-2015
By François Michonneau, @fmic_ (with editorial suggestions from Judit Ungvari-Martin)
Reproducibility is one of the corner stones of the scientific process. Readers should be able to figure out how you generate the numbers (e.g., statistics and p-values) found in your manuscript, and the origin of the data points that are making up your plots. As analytical methods are growing more...
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