Citizen science
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
WeDigBio Lite expands reach and breaks records
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
WeDigBio 2018
Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science - Symposium at EntSoc 2017
WeDigBio 2017
WeDigBio 2016
Contributed by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast (iDigBio-Florida State University).
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
WeDigBio 2016 Call for Participation
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, WeDigBio 2015, engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries in transcribing specimen labels over four days.
The Inaugural WeDigBio Event: Global Event Advances Digitization and Science Literacy
Hundreds of volunteers around the world transcribed >30,000 specimen labels at 25 events over four days (Oct 22–25, 2015) in the first Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event. Events spanned a range of formal and informal education 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 Histor
Florida State University Transcription Blitz with Florida Native Plant Society
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of the Florida Native Plant Society Annual Conference. This was the third digitization blitz hosted by iDigBio, the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections Thematic Collections Network, and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium.