Data Capture and Analysis of Artifacts and Biological Specimens Using Multi-Channel Images
DATA CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES
Dr. Corey Toler-Franklin, iDigBio Visiting Scholar
DATA CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES
Dr. Corey Toler-Franklin, iDigBio Visiting Scholar
DATA CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES
Dr. Corey Toler-Franklin, iDigBio Visiting Scholar
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
The workshop is scheduled for four days at the end of January and beginning of February. To enable everyone to participate at a time that is convenient, we have provided two two-hour options (9–11 a.m. ET and 3–5 p.m. ET) for each day. There will be groups meeting on the day’s topics at both of those times, and participants may join one or both of those timeslots each day.
Abstract: Joining the Arctos Community means meeting new collaborators, learning new skills, and a lot of data clean-up. Whether you joined five years ago, last week, plan to join soon, or want to help mentor new members, this webinar will help explain the process we have set up to help new members of the Arctos Community get their collections up and running. Learn why we use GitHub, how to best get help, who has the answers and where to find documentation. Onboarding never really ends, even our most senior community members are adding new types of collections data.
A team of Florida State University researchers has received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a global data set on the horseshoe bat, a possible source of the novel coronavirus plaguing nations worldwide.
Announcement text from ICEDIG BLOG post.
What: The Entomological Collections Network (ECN) 2019 annual meeting.
Where: The Landmark Ballroom, in the Marriott St. Louis Grand located at 800 Washington Street, St. Louis, Missouri
When: November 16-17, 2019
Contributed by: Jeanette Pirlo
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Figure 1: Imaging Workshop participant demonstrates proper imaging techniques by manipulating lighting, enhancing the specimen by providing a matte background, and properly using a scalebar in the image. Photo Credit: Jeanette Pirlo |
LightningBug: Mass Digitization of Pinned Insect Specimens
What: Overview of LightningBug project followed by open discussion
When: Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/ select “Enter as guest,” enter your full name, and click Enter room.
UPDATE: The application process is closed, candidate review is underway.
UPDATE: There's still time - one week left to apply!
iDigBio is seeking a new team member for the Digitization and Workforce Development branch of the project. The group is located at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Greetings Everyone,
iDigBio is seeking a new team member at iDigBio for the Digitization and Workforce Development branch of the project. The group is located at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
UPDATE: There's still time - one week left to apply!
iDigBio is seeking a new team member for the Digitization and Workforce Development branch of the project. The group is located at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
The European MOBILISE COST Action sets out "to foster a cooperative network in Europe to support excellent research activities, and facilitate knowledge and technology transfer around natural science collections." As part of their efforts to prepare for the funding and implementation of DiSSCo, they are setting up their first First Training School on Digitization and Data Management of Collections!
The SPNHC 2019 theme: Making the Case for Natural History Collections offers everyone a chance to share the value of collections for society and science. iDigBio staff look forward to contributing to this story and visiting the Field Museum who are hosting this year's SPNHC meeting.
Some of the events iDigBio is organizing or participating in include:
UPDATE: See the wiki for talks. Slides to be uploaded to wiki soon. Blog post in April 2019.
From Ohio State University:
Contributed by Ana Dal Molin, INCT-Hympar/CAPES postdoctoral fellow at Laboratório de Biodiversidade de Insetos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. All images from Ana Dal Molin
Participants at this event are staff caring for small and regional collections, essentially, non-national museum curators. This workshop will key in on ideas, models, and training for incorporating digitization at this level. The goals are to focus on practical recommendations that require very little in the way of additional budget or expertise where possible. Practical training may be offered in one or two key areas, for example, georeferencing, data standards, and review of recommendations based on the Five Task Clusters paper (Nelson, et al 2012).
Imagine an ADBC-type program for the EU and related countries with their very own version of Thematic Collection Networks and an iDigBio-like hub. This very idea is coming soon with the monicker: DiSSCo -- Distributed System of Scientific Collections. How will it be structured? What human resources will be needed? What about the cyberinfrastructure? What experiences and lessons learned can iDigBio share to benefit DiSSCo?
Contributed by: Rod Eastwood Curator, Entomological Collection, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Institut für Agrarwissenschaften, Biocommunication & Entomology, Zürich, Switzerland
Mike Webster (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) and Gil Nelson (iDigBio)
Hi Everyone,
by Deb Paul