Press Releases
Published: 03-14-2017
Reposting Controlled values (again): The connection between The Darwin Core Hour and the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification by Steven Baskauf.
Intro by Deborah Paul, iDigBio
The iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMIG) collaboratively created and continues to develop the Darwin Core Hour monthly webinar series. We’re very pleased to re-post this blog by Steven Baskauf about...
Published: 03-07-2017
As part of the new Cretaceous World TCN, Jonathan Hendricks at the Paleontological Research Institution has recently released the first chapter in the larger Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life (DEAL) project.
The goal of DEAL is to produce a free online digital encyclopedia providing information on a host of topics relevant to paleontologists, biologists, interested amateurs, and the...
Published: 08-24-2016
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016, America invites the world to discover the meaning of national parks to their lives and inspires people to both experience and become devoted to these special places.
On August 25, 2006 - the 90th anniversary of the National Park Service - Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, launched the National Park...
Published: 07-28-2016
Learn how to engage and inform decision-makers!
Rarely has the need for effective and influential communication about science been more important than it is today.
Politicians and political interests are redefining and reinterpreting science--with great persistence and impact. The majority of the public still respect scientists and value science, but they often find it...
Published: 05-17-2016
From the Pensoft Editorial Team
On October 20, 2015, we published a blog post about the novel functionalities in ARPHA that allowed streamlined import of specimen or occurrence records into taxonomic manuscripts.
Recently, this process was reflected in the “Tips and Tricks” section of the ARPHA authoring tool. Here, we’ll list the individual workflows...
Published: 04-25-2016
Are you preparing a project proposal for the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program? Visit the National Science Foundations Blog for the Division of Biological Infrastructure to find information regarding ADBC budget justifications & decisions.
The blog post includes the following factors considered by the ADBC Program when reviewing budget requests for...
Published: 04-08-2016
Champaign, Ill. When anthrax became a household name in 2011, even curators of some herbaria were unaware that samples of Bacillus anthracis, the source of anthrax, had been housed in their microfungal collections for over a hundred years. Recently, a digitization project at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), Prairie Research Institute (PRI) has unearthed the...
Published: 03-07-2016
Cibraria cancellata – photo by Kim Fleming
One goal of the NSF Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program is to expose unique and often cryptic collections by making their data publicly available through one of the numerous online data portals serving data to iDigBio. The Microfungi Collections Consortium TCN was recently afforded this opportunity thanks to a...
Published: 01-22-2016
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently released their 2014-2015 Annual Report that highlights the museum's research, outreach, and other achievements from the year. The report includes a two page spread on iDigBio which includes a summary of the project's outcomes, activites, and achievements from the past five years. The section can be found on pages 14 and 15 of the...
Published: 01-14-2016
Special Issue on Sustainability in Biobanking With guest editors Marianne Henderson, Daniel Simeon-Dubach, and Monique Albert.
From the Official Journal of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories.
The issue includes ten articles with free access through February 1, 2016.
View the press release or visit the special issue to read and download articles.
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