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Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Welcome to the third annual iDigBio Retreat! The retreat provides an open forum for the entire iDigBio team to review our progress and our plans for the future. Plus, the retreat provides an opportunity for us to get to know one another better and enhance our team-building.

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The New York Times Highlights Worldwide Collections Digitization Efforts

The New York Times published an article October 19, 2015, that highlights several digitization efforts from around the world including iDigBio:

Florida Museum to host free biodiversity digitization event Oct. 24 as part of four-day global effort

Gainesville, Florida, area residents will have the opportunity to help make biological collections accessible online during a free event Oct. 24 at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization Workshop

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iDigBio and the EMu NHSIG in Philadelphia

iDigBio was delighted with Axiell's generous invitation to present a half-day digitization workshop at the annual meeting of the EMu user group Natural History Special Interest Group (NHSIG), held October 7 at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. After determining via survey what EMu users would be interested in hearing about, we fashioned the following well-received agenda:

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Citizen Science grad course at FSU and UF

by Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood and Bruce MacFadden

A summer learning R to clean up data with the iDigBio portal recordset correction feature

by Heather Appleby, former undergrad intern, Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network (TTD-TCN). Katja Seltmann (TTD-TCN), Deb Paul, Alex Thompson, and Matt Collins Eds.