Simultaneous Transcription Blitzes a Success!
Citizen science
Citizen Science in Digitization Review Published!
The Sitch with the Stitch—The CITStitch Hackathon
Citizen Science crowdfunding initiative launched
Imaging Blitz participants photograph specimens.
FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium is pleased to announce a crowdfunding campaign running from December 1–15 to raise $2000 to provision six 1-day citizen science events in 2015.
New Article Published on Crowdsourcing Transcription in e-Science
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.
iDig’dBio@ FSU’s Herbarium Imaging Blitz a Success!
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CITSCribe Hackathon
The CITSCribe Hackathon, co-organized by Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project and iDigBio brought together over 30 programmers and researchers from the areas of biodiversity research and digital humanities for a week to further enable public participation in the transcription of biodiversity specimen labels.
Citizen Scientist
Public engagement in scientific research (sometimes referred to as citizen science) is not new, but new web resources (e.g., from the Zooniverse, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and USA National Phenology Network suites of projects) provide scientists with opportunities to engage the public in ways and at scales not previously possible. At the same time, the public is increasingly provided with opportunities to
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