ADBC

Sustaining the momentum of digitization in biodiversity collections

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 3:16pm -- ekrimmel

Join iDigBio and panelists from the community in a moderated conversation about sustaining digitization and data mobilization activities in biodiversity collections beyond initial grant funding. Panelists will discuss strategies for integrating digitization into an institution’s ongoing activities and budget, including what metrics they see as valuable for gaining internal support. Panelists will also consider impediments to sustaining digitization.

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Sustainability
Digitization
ADBC

ADBC Program Background and History

Fri, 03/09/2018 - 11:58am -- djennings

An estimated 1.8 million named species of organisms exist on Earth today and many more are now extinct. This rich diversity is documented through research collections of fossil and extant organisms housed in natural history museums, universities, field facilities, botanical gardens, state surveys, and other institutions maintaining collection facilities.

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NSF

BCoN Workshop: Future Research

Mon, 11/14/2016 - 1:45pm -- djennings

iDigBio will be participating in a workshop to consider future research opportunities arising from current national initiatives to digitize and mobilize images and associated data from U.S. biodiversity collections. The meeting will be held in Washington, DC, on January 5-6, 2017, and is being sponsored by the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) Research Coordination Network. Participation in this workshop is by invitation only.

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BCoN
NIBA
Research

SPNHC 2016 One Collection: pathways to integration

Wed, 07/13/2016 - 12:51am -- dpaul

Berlin, the Museum for Naturkunde, and Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum proved to be an engaging setting for SPNHC 2016. Conference attendees packed the conference rooms and exhibit hall of the andel’s Hotel in Friedrichshain.

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SPNHC 2016
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
NHMUK
CETAF
Synthesys3
Inselect
ABBYY Fine Reader
Symbiota
Digitization
prioritization
infrastructure
ADBC
industry
green
cradle to cradle

iDigBio Summit VI

Wed, 01/13/2016 - 1:52pm -- djennings

Join the leading researchers and professionals striving to digitize Natural History Collections in the U.S.! The Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and partner initiatives related to NSF's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit will focus on discussions of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and inspire collaboration.

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Summit
ADBC

NSF Awards Fifth Round of ADBC Grants to Enhance America's Biodiversity Collections

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 9:57am -- maphillips

 


Alex Kuhn (of the University of Illinois) instructs Patty Kaishian (of Syracuse University) on how to enter label data from microfungi specimens. Their work is part of the Microfungi Collections Consortium, funded through the ADBC program. Credit: Andrew N. Miller, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois

 

Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA)

Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:35am -- djennings

There are more than 1600 biological collections (biocollections) in the United States. Scientists have amassed, annotated, and curated in those collections more than one billion specimens. These specimens and their associated data are maintained for research and education and to inform wise decisions about the environment, public health, food security, and commerce.

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NIBA
BCoN

ASB–iDigBio Digitization Symposium and Workshop Report: An Inspiring Event

Fri, 04/19/2013 - 7:59am -- gnelson

Digitization was a hot topic at the 2013 Association of Southeastern Biologists’ (ASB) meeting held in Charleston, West Virginia the week of April 10. Well before the beginning of the ASB–iDigBio-sponsored digitization symposium and workshop, several conference goers had already offered important papers outlining strategies and successes in digitizing small herbaria and incorporating digitization into biodiversity field research.

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Specify
TCN
ADBC
Digitization
InvertNet
Tri-trophic
NYBG
New York Botanical Garden
Geolocate
SERNEC

NIBA Implementation Plan

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 5:22pm -- joanna

Recognizing the value of biocollections for research, education, and society, the biocollections community coalesced in 2010 to develop A Strategic Plan for Establishing a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA). The plan issues a strong and urgent call for an aggressive, coordinated, large-scale, and sustained effort to digitize the nation's biocollections in order to mobilize their data through the Internet.

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ADBC
NIBA

NIBA Strategic Plan

Wed, 12/07/2011 - 2:06pm -- cbester

It is important to consider that iDigBio is one portion of a larger biological digitization community. The following links provide an overview of the larger Network Integrated Biological Alliance (NIBA), which includes iDigBio, Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), and other digitizing institutions and strategic partners. In 2015 RCN changed NIBA's name to the "Biodiversity Collections Network" (BCoN).

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ADBC
NIBA

NSF ADBC Program Information

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:53pm -- kevinlove

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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