News Articles
Published: 06-17-2015
Each year, iDigBio surveys its internal team and the collections community, broader scientific community, partners, stakeholders, and others interested in the national digitization effort to find out how we are doing. We use the feedback to inform our decision-making and to help us set priorities and determine next steps. We are grateful to the nearly 250 individuals who participated in this year...
Published: 06-16-2015
June 3-5, 2015 (iDigBio API Hackathon) – Team Visualization blog, by Charlotte Germain-Aubrey (FLMNH/iDigBio), Andréa Matsunaga (UF/iDigBio), Chris Neefus (U. of New Hampshire/Macroalgae TCN), Joel Ramirez (The New York Botanical Garden), Aimee Stewart (U. of Kansas Biodiversity Institute/Lifemapper), and Greg Traub (UF/iDigBio):
The visualization team set the development of tools...
Published: 06-15-2015
June 3-5, 2015 (iDigBio API Hackathon) – Team Integration blog, by Jorrit Poelen (Global Biotic Interactions), Dmitry Mozzherin (Global Names), Jon Lauters (U. of Colorado), Scott Bates (MacroFungi TCN, MacroAlgal TCN), Mike Trizna (Smithsonian), Nelson Rios (Tulane University, GEOLocate), Alex Thompson (iDigBio)
During the early stages of the hackathon, we talked about the proliferation...
Published: 06-11-2015
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of the Florida Native Plant Society Annual Conference. This was the third digitization blitz hosted by iDigBio, the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections Thematic Collections Network, and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium. Each of our previous blitzes—an imaging blitz and a...
Published: 06-04-2015
Are you interested in working with the public to digitize your university's or museum's biodiversity research collections (i.e., biocollections)? Would you like to do this simultaneously and interactively with other institutions around the world? We are currently recruiting biocollections that would like to collaborate on the 4-day, global WeDigBio Event on October 22-25, 2015. ...
Published: 06-01-2015
The Florida Museum of Natural History and partners hosted the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) from May 17-23, 2015, at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in Gainesville, Florida. The theme of the conference was “Making Natural History Collections Accessible Through New and Innovative Approaches and Partnerships...
Published: 05-14-2015
The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (CLO) provided the perfect venue for the recent Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization workshop, held 4-7 May 2015 in Ithaca, NY. iDigBio is delighted to have co-sponsored this event with CLO, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, and the Bishop Museum. Nearly 70 vertebrate zoologists attended, representing curators, collections managers, and...
Published: 04-30-2015
Georeferencing Procedure Outline - a guest blog by Michael Yost, Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) Project Assistant at the Denver Botanic Gardens
Greetings, fellow georeferencers!
My name is Mike Yost, Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) Project Assistant at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
I am currently georeferencing specimens for the University of Montana Herbarium (...
Published: 04-29-2015
UF CAIRES (Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics, and Science) sponsored a two-day Sustainability and Social Media Conference on Friday, April 17-18 2015, at the Levin School of Law. iDigBio graduate student Randy Singer was fortunate enough to be invited as a panelist for a session on Digitizing Nature.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have been invited as a...
Published: 04-20-2015
From Deb Paul, @idbdeb
This 4-day hands-on short course in March investigated current trends in collecting, and focused on best practices and skills development for supporting the collection and sharing of robust, fit-for-research-use data.
What can we do to facilitate stakeholders’ access to quality data? High quality data is generated when data collection is planned before...
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