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Published: 04-16-2015
-Guest blog enthusiastically provided by course participant Rick Levy, Database Associate, Denver Botanic Gardens
Having recently participated in the Field to Database (F2DB) workshop, I have had a lot to practice and share with my colleagues. The course took a head first dive into the journey of natural history data, from collection methodologies to its dissemination through new exciting...
Published: 04-15-2015
By: Deb Paul, Shari Ellis, Andréa Matsunaga, Blaine Marchant
From Deb
The four of us just got back from a 3-day hackathon as part of a team to collaboratively construct a Data Carpentry genomics lesson. Invited applicants including genomics researchers, educators, assessment experts, computer scientists, and graduate students gathered at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Tracy Teal (...
Published: 04-06-2015
On Saturday, March 28, from 8–noon 31 volunteers gathered in computer labs at Valdosta State University (participants shown above) and Florida State University (participants shown to left) for a transcription blitz benefiting the VSU Herbarium and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium. The blitz used two online transcription platforms: Zooniverse's Notes from Nature and the...
Published: 04-02-2015
On March 19 and 20, 2015, a group representing online transcription platforms, biocollections, museum informal education and media departments, National Geographic, and iDigBio met at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., to plan an annual event focused on global public participation in digitization of biocollections. The event has the...
Published: 04-01-2015
Managing Natural History Collections Data for Global Discoverability is fourth in a series of biodiversity informatics workshops at iDigBio and we are currently accepting applications! Don't wait, space is limited.
Deadline to Apply is May 1st, 2015.
To learn more, or to apply, visit the calendar announcement.
Location: Arizona State University, Tempe (Natural History Collections Space);...
Published: 03-20-2015
SPNHC 2015 30th Annual Meeting and Gala Celebration
Making Natural History Collections Accessible through
New and Innovative Approaches and Partnerships
May 17, 2015 to May 23, 2015
Register. If you haven’t already, make plans now to attend the 2015 SPNHC 30th Annual Meeting and Gala Celebration hosted by the Florida Museum of Natural History. Information on...
Published: 03-05-2015
Congratulations, Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, and their 10 coauthors, on the new BioScience article entitled Accelerating the Digitization of Biodiversity Research Specimens through Online Public Participation. In the article, the authors discuss three broad areas in which the public can participate in digitization of biodiversity research specimens: transcribing labels and ledgers,...
Published: 02-09-2015
From Deb Paul, on twitter @idbdeb
Got Data? We’re all ready to help you get your data discovered! Researchers, Collection Managers, Data Managers, Taxonomists, and Curators gathered in Ottawa, Canada and in Gainesville, Florida, on January 13 -14, 2015, to learn more about best practices for how to develop and share robust natural history collection specimen data. We benefitted from the...
Published: 02-05-2015
Goal: Design, develop, implement, test and/or document uses of iDigBio data via its APIs
Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dates and times: June 3-5, 2015; 8 am - 5 pm each day
To apply: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6Wr1womZuY7O5o1 deadline February 28, 2015. Invited applicants will be notified by March 9th.
Synopsis
We encourage interested individuals...
Published: 02-04-2015
Following its DROID (Developing Robust Object to Image to Data) workshop in May 2012, iDigBio launched a series of working groups, each devoted to developing a set of digitization workflows for a specific preparation type. The first of these, which finished its work in late 2012, dubbed itself the Flat Sheets and Packets working group and focused primarily on strategies for herbarium...
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