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.
For optimum results, digitization of collections needs to go faster, right? Of course, this includes addressing data quality and completeness.
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
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.
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
Monday, December 14, 2015
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Capitol Visitor Center SVC-212
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
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.
Purple loosestrife. Image courtesy: U-M Herbarium.
The University of Michigan recently published their fourth installment in a series of articles highlighting the University of Michigan Herbarium's digitization efforts and participation in ADBC.
Long stalks of Thysanophora penicillioides, a microfungus that grows on fallen hemlock needles. Photo courtesy of: Kathie T. Hodge
UPDATE: recording of this webinar here:
Samantha Winder, project coordinator, shows an algal specimen. Photo courtesy of the University of Michigan Herbarium.
A third article was recently published by the University of Michigan in their series on the University of Michigan Herbarium's digitization efforts.
"The localities and dates of collection associated with these vouchered specimens provide the only large-scale, verifiable data available on native distributions of organisms and how those distributions have changed over time."
iDigBio’s Vertebrate Digitization Interest Group is pleased to offer a 4-part webinar series entitled The Value of Digitizing Vertebrate Collections, all to be held on Tuesdays in September, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. These will be the first four of several webinars leading up to a second iDigBio-sponsored vertebrate digitization workshop to be held spring 2016.
iDigBio’s Vertebrate Digitization Interest Group is pleased to offer a 4-part webinar series entitled The Value of Digitizing Vertebrate Collections, all to be held on Tuesdays in September, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. These will be the first four of several webinars leading up to a second iDigBio-sponsored vertebrate digitization workshop to be held spring 2016.
iDigBio’s Vertebrate Digitization Interest Group is pleased to offer a 4-part webinar series entitled The Value of Digitizing Vertebrate Collections, all to be held on Tuesdays in September, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. These will be the first four of several webinars leading up to a second iDigBio-sponsored vertebrate digitization workshop to be held spring 2016.
iDigBio’s Vertebrate Digitization Interest Group is pleased to offer a 4-part webinar series entitled The Value of Digitizing Vertebrate Collections, all to be held on Tuesdays in September, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. These will be the first four of several webinars leading up to a second iDigBio-sponsored vertebrate digitization workshop to be held spring 2016.
Laura Maihofer, electronic imaging technician, imaging the specimen note cards of Edwin B. Mains, who was a prominent mycologist at U-M who served as director of the Herbarium, president of the Mycological Society of America, and described many new fungi among other achievements. Image credit: Matthew Foltz.
Georeferencing: The Polygon Method - a guest blog by Michael Yost, Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) Project Assistant at the Denver Botanic Gardens and active member of the iDigBio GWG.
An overview. from Deb Paul, Dena Smith, and Vlad Blagoderov
Summary.
We're headed for ICE 2016, the XXV International Congress of Entomology, September 25 - 30, 2016.
Sneak Preview of talks on the Data Without Borders (DwB) Symposium Wiki.
Symposium Date and Time: Monday 26 Sept, 130-530 EDT
in progress: Logistics to arrange broadcasting and recording of this symposium. Stay Tuned! for details.
Hi Everyone, this event is now over, but you can listen to the conversation in the Webinar Recording: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p65yarolyd7/
Photo: Minky Faber (ALA)
Like iDigBio on Facebook | Follow iDigBio on Twitter
Use of this website is subject to iDigBio's Terms of Use and Service Level Agreement.
This page uses Google Analytics • Google Privacy Policy
iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018) and DBI-1547229 (2016-2021)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. © 2011-2019 iDigBio
