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BITC Global Online Seminar #27: History of Visualizations in Biodiversity Informatics

 
When: Thu, Aug 25, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cllttvjenustojnkrmal0i67rh8
Hosted by: A. Townsend Peterson
 
As a further part of our series on history of biodiversity informatics, Dr. Javier Otegui will present an overview of the history of visualizations in the field. Javier is self-described as "Biólogo. Programador.
Data Scientist. Análisis de datos." ... biologist, programmer, data scientist, data analyst. This talk should be a fascinating overview of a key dimension of this field.
 

iDigBio Hosts Workshop on Biodiversity Research Methods at Botany 2016 in Savannah, GA

For the third straight year, iDigBio hosted a full-day workshop on research methods using digitized herbarium specimen data at the annual Botany conference (Botany 2016, Savannah, GA), sponsored by the Botanical Society of America and its affiliated societies.  After successful workshops on Georeferencing (Bo

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Researchers Use MyCoPortal to Track Down Specimens Lost for Over 100 Years

Specimens collected in Nicaragua by American mycologist Charles Leonard Smith in the late 19th century were thought to have been lost for over 100 years.Through records created on the MyCoPortal, Gregorio Delgado and Ondřej Koukol of EMLab P&K (Phoenix, AZ) and Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), respectively, were able to

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Research Spotlight: August 2016

Preserving historic bee specimens to protect future bee biodiversity

-- Contributed by Joan Meiners, PhD Student, Ernest Lab, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida

For my PhD research in Dr. Morgan Ernest's lab at the University of Florida, I am using large datasets of occurrence records of native bees and their habitat associations to try to understand native bee biodiversity and foraging patterns...read more here.

 

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figshare webinar : meeting funder open data mandates

With an increasing number of funders across the world mandating open data, the pressure is on researchers and their institutions to meet these requirements. 

Do you and your institution have a plan?

If no, don't worry, join this webinar to find out more about how figshare can help. 

figshare for institutions is now being used by over 20 universities across the world. The platform has been praised by librarians and research data managers for being a user-friendly out-of-the-box data solution.

In this webinar we'll be showing you how to get started with figshare for institutions, the problems our platform solves, as well as how we address some of the more complex issues in research data management eg. commercially or ethically sensitive data, embargo periods and discipline-specific metadata.

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