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iDigBio Visiting Scholars Program Available at the University of Florida
The NSF-funded iDigBio project is pleased to announce the annual Visiting Scholars Program. This program is directed towards early-career collections and informatics-based professionals with demonstrated interest in digitization, particularly those who broaden representation within this academic and professional community.
NSF Awards Grants to Advance Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
July 8, 2011
Centuries of discovery document the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, in varied and distinct natural history collections, making assessing the information a difficult task.
Now, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Advancing Digitization of BiodiversityCollections program, is responding to the need for greater accessibility of biological collections data by awarding four major grants that seek to create a national resource of digital data documenting existing biological collections.
Florida State to take part in $10 million project to digitize nation's biological collections
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitize the nation's biological collections. FSU's Center for Information Management and Scientific Communication, in the College of Communication & Information, will work with UF's Florida Museum of Natural History and its College of Engineering Advanced Computing Information Systems Laboratory to create software and databases the nationwide participants will use to transfer and store the data.
Digitization HUB: A Collections Digitization Framework for the 21st Century
The accelerated loss of biodiversity, the "Biodiversity Crisis", is one of the leading environmental and social issues of the 21st century. Although natural biological diversity is fundamentally important to a healthy and sustainable planet, responses to the crisis have suffered from incomplete information and inadequate policies for sustainable use of natural resources. Information relevant to addressing the impact of declining biodiversity is housed within the nation's natural history and related biosystematic collections, but is inaccessible to most researchers and policy makers.
UF, FSU receive $10 million for project to digitize U.S. biology collections
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation announced today its award of a $10 million grant to the University of Florida and Florida State University to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitize the nation’s biological collections.
Available to anyone online, the natural history data and its increased accessibility will help researchers identify gaps in scientific knowledge and could assist government agencies and others making decisions related to climate change, conservation, invasive species, biodiversity and other biological issues.
Contact iDigBio Regarding the ADBC Program
Please use the comment form below to submit questions to iDigBio personnel if you have any questions related to the ADBC program. We thank you for your interest in this exciting initiative.
NSF ADBC Solicitation
Periodically, the National Science Foundation accepts proposals for additional Thematic Collections Networks to participate in the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections initiative. Please review the publication on NSF’s website for full details.
Prior to submitting a proposal for ADBC, please review the available forms.
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Overview
What is Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections?
NSF's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collection (ADBC) program is intended to put into digital format records of Biodiversity specimens stored in all U.S. collections.
NSF ADBC Program Information
The National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States.
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