News Articles
Published: 09-23-2014
By the numbers:
60 hours of prep work by herbarium staff
3 imaging stations
22 volunteers
2 four-hour imaging shifts with one hour for lunch.
125 specimens imaged per hour, on average, per station
3,000 local plant specimens imaged in total
1 very cool water bottle gift for volunteers
Endless research possibilities for digitized herbarium specimens
On September 13, 2014, iDigBio...
Published: 09-15-2014
A workshop on data modeling took place at the East-West Center in Honolulu, March 24-25, 2014. The workshop immediately preceded the Biological Collections Digitization in the Pacific workshop and focused on data modeling and requirements for biodiversity information repositories.
One goal of the data modeling workshop was to consider data and service requirements for aggregators of...
Published: 09-15-2014
About 50 undergraduates and recent graduates attended the Careers and Graduate Studies in the Biological Sciences workshop in Chicago, 6 September 2014. Co-sponsored by the Field Museum and iDigBio, the workshop brought together an impressive cadre of presenters and collections managers to introduce students to the importance of biodiversity collections, as well as the importance of careers in...
Published: 09-01-2014
August 2014
Written by Libby Ellwood, iDigBio Postdoctorial Associate, Florida State University.
Deb Paul and I attended the Ecological Society of America conference in Sacramento, CA to represent iDigBio with an exhibitor booth. We set up our table with computers, brochures, posters, videos, newsletter sign-up sheets and, of course, enticing candy.
Our goals were to meet ecologists, hear...
Published: 08-15-2014
Amanda Neill, Director of the Herbarium, Botanical Research Institute of Texas
August 15th, 2014
Larkin infrared thermal imaging demo-SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp
DemoCamp 2014 was held in Cardiff on Thursday June 26th and provided all of the live-without-a-net-demo elements that have kept these powerpoint-free sessions interesting and well-attended for five years: the latest and greatest in museum...
Published: 08-11-2014
August 2014
Often at iDigBio sponsored workshops, symposia, and outreach events, we are asked the question: “How can I write a successful ADBC proposal?”
For those new to our alphabet soup, Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) is the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) program for bootstrapping museum collections digitization and establishing a...
Published: 08-02-2014
Twenty-three participants representing 22 herbaria remained for an extra day in Boise following the close of Botany 2014 to participate in a small herbarium digitization workshop co-sponsored by iDigBio and the North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH). Twenty-four states, Canada, and the Philippines were represented. Collections ranged in size from 1,000 to 170,000 specimens, 13 of the...
Published: 05-09-2014
“Those millions of bugs on pins, pressed plants, preserved animals and fossils hold a wealth of information about the adaptive abilities of our natural world, not to mention the DNA and curative uses yet to be discovered.”
More than 80 researchers and students from 48 institutions in seven countries met at the “Collections for the 21st Century” symposium held May 5-6...
Published: 05-08-2014
The BIOSPEX Management System—Provision, Advertise, and Lead Crowdsourcing Projects
Over the past few centuries, professional and citizen scientists have amassed an estimated 3 billion biological specimens for research. Labels and notebooks associated with these specimens offer a rich source of information on past and present patterns of biodiversity—for example, what was...
Published: 05-02-2014
There may be no place better than the University of Texas to conduct a broad-based paleo imaging workshop. This certainly seemed the consensus the week of 29 April at the co-sponsored iDigBio and Jackson School of Geosciences imaging event. More than 50 attendees were treated to three days of presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on CT training, all of which were recorded and are now available...
Pages
