Invited Talk: Digital Scientific Collections Offer New Opportunities in Science, Outreach, and Industry
From Ohio State University:
Digitization
How to, and how not to, design a light box: A cautionary tale
by C. Skema, Anne Barber, and Tim Block
Sharing Strategies for Mobilizing Collections in South America - iDigBio at the XXXII Brazilian Congress of Zoology (CBZ)
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
Borderless Collections – Starting a Collections Community (R)evolution
UK SWANS Practical Digitization Workshop
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).
ICEDIG: Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitization of natural heritage
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?
Digitization of the ETH Entomological Collection
Contributed by: Rod Eastwood Curator, Entomological Collection, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Institut für Agrarwissenschaften, Biocommunication & Entomology, Zürich, Switzerland
SPNHC 2017 Theme - The Next Generation in Best Practices - a perfect fit for iDigBio
Digital Photography 101 Workshop
Using Digitized Paleontological Data in Research Workshop
Opening up Behavioral Data
Mike Webster (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) and Gil Nelson (iDigBio)
Polygon Madness! Creating them, using them in research
Hi Everyone,
Data Without Borders Symposium at XXV International Congress of Entomologists ICE 2016
by Deb Paul
SPNHC 2018 and TDWG 2018 First Joint Meeting
In a first for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), these two organizations agreed to hold their 2018 conferences jointly. The 2018 meeting is in Dunedin, New Zealand from August 25-September 2, 2018.
SPNHC+TDWG2018 Theme: Collections & Data in an Unstable World
Entomological Collections Management Workshop II
Save the Dates! July 17th - July 20th, 2017.
GSA2016: Fossil Specimens 0’s and 1’s - Databases, Standards, & Mobilization
This session at GSA 2016 will focus on paleontology/geo databases, data standards related to paleontology, and mobilization of research-quality paleontology data to iDigBio and other aggregators. These topics have sparked considerable interest amongst the iDigBio Paleontology Digitization Working Group and are a natural extension of existing digitization programs.
SPNHC 2016 One Collection: pathways to integration
Berlin, the Museum for Naturkunde, and Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum proved to be an engaging setting for SPNHC 2016. Conference attendees packed the conference rooms and exhibit hall of the andel’s Hotel in Friedrichshain.
SPNHC 2016 Symposium: Digitizing and Imaging Collections: New Methods, Ideas, and Uses
Symposium Time: 8:30am - 5:00pm Berlin time (CEST), but: 2:30AM - 11:00AM Florida time (EDT)! So aren't you glad we're recording?! Symposium date: Thursday 23 June 2016.
From iDigBio - About the Cisco Pit Stop: Digitising the Natural History Museum’s collections
For optimum results, digitization of collections needs to go faster, right? Of course, this includes addressing data quality and completeness.
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
Vertebrate Zoologists Gather at Berkeley to Explore Successful Strategies for Specimen Digitization
SPNHC 2016 Symposium: An International Conversation on Mobilizing Natural History Collections (NHC) Data and Integrating Data for Research
UPDATE: Good News! Several symposia at SPNHC 2016 will be broadcast live - so you can listen in from all over the world. Stay tuned for details, watch twitter, facebook, and these iDigBio pages.
UPDATE. We had over 27 abstracts submitted for a symposium with 9 slots. So, we added an additional symposium titled: Digitizing and Imaging Collections: New Methods, Ideas, and Uses.
SPNHC 2016 Conference: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
UPDATE: Good News! Several symposia at SPNHC 2016 will be broadcast live - so you can listen in from all over the world. Stay tuned for details, watch twitter, facebook, and these iDigBio pages.
From the SPNHC 2016 Berlin web site: http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/index.html
Digitization Project Finds Anthrax in Collections
Digitization: New Tools for Increasing the Use of Natural History Collections for Research, Education and Informed Decisionmaking
Monday, December 14, 2015
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Capitol Visitor Center SVC-212
WeDigBio 2016 Planning Workshop
The Values of Digitizing Vertebrate Collections: Workshop
UPDATE: We're Live! join us now at http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/vertdigi
For details and the agenda, please visit the workshop wiki: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_Vertebrate_Digitization_Workshop_Two
Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event
Liberate centuries of data about life on earth! Contribute online either at a museum party or from a computer anywhere on the planet during the event. For more info, visit wedigbio.org.
Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization Workshop
Organization for Biological Field Stations and iDigBio team up for digitization workshop at the OBFS annual meeting
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