Rmarkdown + GitHub = Reproducible Research
-Guest blog enthusiastically provided by course participant Rick Levy, Database Associate, Denver Botanic Gardens
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3 day collaborative task: create a Data Carpentry genomics lesson with assessment modules
By: Deb Paul, Shari Ellis, Andréa Matsunaga, Blaine Marchant
From Deb
Simultaneous Transcription Blitzes a Success!
Planning the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event
Apply now for iDigBio's Fourth Biodiversity Informatics Workshop
Managing Natural History Collections Data for Global Discoverability is fourth in a series of biodiversity informatics workshops at iDigBio and we are currently accepting applications! Don't wait, space is limited.
Deadline to Apply is May 1st, 2015.
SPNHC 2015 30th Annual Meeting and Gala Celebration
SPNHC 2015 30th Annual Meeting and Gala Celebration
Making Natural History Collections Accessible through
New and Innovative Approaches and Partnerships
May 17, 2015 to May 23, 2015
Citizen Science in Digitization Review Published!
Data Standards for Sharing & Hands-On Experience with the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)
From Deb Paul, on twitter @idbdeb
Call for Participation: Hackathon on iDigBio APIs/Services and Interoperability
Goal: Design, develop, implement, test and/or document uses of iDigBio data via its APIs
Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dates and times: June 3-5, 2015; 8 am - 5 pm each day
To apply: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6Wr1womZuY7O5o1 deadline February 28, 2015. Invited applicants will be notified by March 9th.
Bringing Herbarium Workflows Up To Date
iDigBio Update For 2014
Dear iDigBio Friends and Family,
The Sitch with the Stitch—The CITStitch Hackathon
iDigBio at BIS-TDWG 2014: some digitization, crowd-sourcing, and data use too
by Deb Paul, with Libby Ellwood and Greg Riccardi as Eds.
iDigBio and Entomological Collections Network Team for Successful ECN Annual Meeting
Nearly 200 collections professionals attended this year’s Entomological Collections Network (ECN) conference, 15-16 November 2014 in Portland, Oregon.
iDigBio Summit IV Report
Summary
Santa Barbara Workshop Draws 50 Participants
Data Carpentry - Please can we have some more?!
iDigBio and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) co-hosted a Data Carpentry Workshop on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 – 30, 2014.
Florida Museum of Natural History ButterflyFest 2014
iDigBio staff participated in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual event ButterflyFest “A Celebration of Wings, Wildlife and Biodiversity”. The event was held Saturday, October 4, at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville Florida.
iNaturalist Workshop Report
iDigBio and the Florida Museum of Natural History co-sponsored a half-day introductory workshop to the website/application iNaturalist on Friday, September 26, 2014, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
A New Report of Recommendations for DNA Banking
The use of sequencing and other molecular data now plays a critical role in the majority of research across the fields of systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. In addition, DNA barcoding offers an efficient way to identify specimens for large efforts like biodiversity inventory projects or biological resource management.
iDig’dBio@ FSU’s Herbarium Imaging Blitz a Success!
By the numbers:
Data Modeling Workshop Report
A workshop on data modeling took place at the East-West Center in Honolulu, March 24-25, 2014. The workshop immediately preceded the Biological Collections Digitization in the Pacific workshop and focused on data modeling and requirements for biodiversity information repositories.
Undergraduates Learn About Careers and Graduate Study in Biology at the Field Museum
About 50 undergraduates and recent graduates attended the Careers and Graduate Studies in the Biological Sciences workshop in Chicago, 6 September 2014.
iDigBio meets ESA
August 2014
Written by Libby Ellwood, iDigBio Postdoctorial Associate, Florida State University.
Deb Paul and I attended the Ecological Society of America conference in Sacramento, CA to represent iDigBio with an exhibitor booth. We set up our table with computers, brochures, posters, videos, newsletter sign-up sheets and, of course, enticing candy.
SPNHC DemoCamp 2014 Report
Amanda Neill, Director of the Herbarium, Botanical Research Institute of Texas
August 15th, 2014
Larkin infrared thermal imaging demo-SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp
Writing a proposal for the ADBC program at NSF
August 2014
Often at iDigBio sponsored workshops, symposia, and outreach events, we are asked the question: “How can I write a successful ADBC proposal?”
iDigBio and NANSH Host Small Herbarium Digitization Workshop at Botany 2014
Collections for the 21st Century Report
“Those millions of bugs on pins, pressed plants, preserved animals and fossils hold a wealth of information about the adaptive abilities of our natural world, not to mention the DNA and curative uses yet to be discovered.”
BIOSPEX—A Crowdsourcing Management System
The BIOSPEX Management System—Provision, Advertise, and Lead Crowdsourcing Projects
University of Texas Proves an Excellent Venue for Paleo Imaging Workshop
There may be no place better than the University of Texas to conduct a broad-based paleo imaging workshop. This certainly seemed the consensus the week of 29 April at the co-sponsored iDigBio and Jackson School of Geosciences imaging event.
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