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Thematic Collections Networks

Each Thematic Collections Network (TCN) is a network of institutions with a strategy for digitizing information that addresses a particular research theme, such as impacts of climate change or biota of a region. Once digitized, data are easily accessed and available for other research and educational use. Other institutions and collections may join an existing TCN as a Partner to Existing Network (PEN).

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Introduction

The National Science Foundation-funded Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) will put into electronic format all records in U.S. collections of biological specimens.

Records includes taxonomic, geographic and chronological data associated with specimens, as well as images, field notes, and other information useful in understanding biodiversity.
The project essentially will create a Library of Life consisting of the vast amount of taxonomic, geographical and chronological information in institutional collections on the world's biodiversity.

ADBC will be distributed nationally with iDigBio, the HUB, located at the University of Florida and Florida State University, and TCNs = Thematic Collections Networks, located elsewhere in the U.S. Each TCN is a network of institutions with a strategy for digitizing information that addresses a particular research theme, such as impacts of climate change or biota of a region. Once digitized, data are easily accessed and available for other research and educational use.

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