Symposium on Major Motivations Across Scale for Digitizing Biodiversity
WeDigBio's Why Dig Bio symposium.
Three thought leaders reflect on major motivations to create digital information about biodiversity at international, national, and personal scales. What drives the creation and sharing of digital data about the three billion insects on pins, fish in jars, fossils in drawers, plants on sheets, and other specimen types curated by the world's museums, universities, government labs, botanical gardens, zoos, and elsewhere?
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, 
venues, from middle-school and undergraduate science classrooms to county libraries to museums, universities, and botanical gardens, such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H
