News Articles
Published: 01-12-2015
Dear iDigBio Friends and Family,
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) is halfway through its fourth year and has many exciting plans for 2015, including continuing community training, promoting collection data use, and increasing education and outreach efforts. To celebrate last year’s accomplishments, iDigBio invites everyone to explore the resources it is...
Published: 12-12-2014
Internet-scale public engagement in the digitization of biodiversity research specimens, such as can be seen at Notes from Nature, DigiVol, the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center, and FromthePage.com, offers clear win-wins insofar as motoring through our 100’s-of-millions-of-specimens digitization backlog and advancing science literacy. However, developing that level...
Published: 12-09-2014
by Deb Paul, with Libby Ellwood and Greg Riccardi as Eds.
Four iDigBio staff members, Greg Riccardi, Pam Soltis, Libby Ellwood, and Deborah Paul (that’s me) headed to Jönköping, Sweden this year for the biodiversity informatics standards meeting of the year, BIS (TDWG) 2014, October 27 - 31. The timely conference theme: Applications and Data Standards for Sustaining...
Published: 11-28-2014
Nearly 200 collections professionals attended this year’s Entomological Collections Network (ECN) conference, 15-16 November 2014 in Portland, Oregon. Convened annually in association with and just ahead of the annual conference of the Entomological Society of America, ECN has until this year been a loosely organized network of curators, collections managers, systematists, and others...
Published: 11-04-2014
Summary
The fourth annual iDigBio Summit was held on Monday and Tuesday, October 27-28, 2014, in Gainesville, Florida, at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. Eighty-four on-site attendees and nine remote attendees from TCNs, iDigBio, NSF, and other biodiversity informatics initiatives convened to discuss their shared accomplishments, goals, challenges,...
Published: 10-14-2014
The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) turned out to be the perfect venue for iDigBio’s Leveraging Digitization Practices Across Multiple Domains workshop held the week of October 6 and co-sponsored by UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER), the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), and the...
Published: 10-14-2014
iDigBio and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) co-hosted a Data Carpentry Workshop on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 – 30, 2014.
What skills do researchers in the life sciences need to be equipped with today to address current issues facing our planet? How can they make best use of all the data available to them, now, and in the future?
To start off our Data Carpentry...
Published: 10-07-2014
iDigBio staff participated in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual event ButterflyFest “A Celebration of Wings, Wildlife and Biodiversity”. The event was held Saturday, October 4, at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville Florida.
Click the photo to check out FLMNH's Facebook for more photos of the event
ButterflyFest was a family...
Published: 10-01-2014
iDigBio and the Florida Museum of Natural History co-sponsored a half-day introductory workshop to the website/application iNaturalist on Friday, September 26, 2014, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Ken-ichi Ueda, co-founder and director of the website/application, lead the workshop and started participants off with a short introduction to his project iNaturalist. Ken-ichi...
Published: 09-30-2014
The use of sequencing and other molecular data now plays a critical role in the majority of research across the fields of systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. In addition, DNA barcoding offers an efficient way to identify specimens for large efforts like biodiversity inventory projects or biological resource management.
In order to accomplish these kinds of projects,...
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