Digitization Project Finds Anthrax in Collections
Digitization
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
University of Michigan Herbarium Highlighted for Work with Great Lakes Invasives Network
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.
Creating The Microfungi Collections Consortium
Long stalks of Thysanophora penicillioides, a microfungus that grows on fallen hemlock needles. Photo courtesy of: Kathie T. Hodge
Improving Data Quality: iDigBio Recordset data cleaning method, tools, and data flags
UPDATE: recording of this webinar here:
University of Michigan Herbarium Recognized For Macroalgal Digitization Project
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.
New Article: Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Reveals Biggest Data on Biodiversity
"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."
Webinar: The Value of Digitizing Bird Collections
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.
Webinar: The Value of Digitizing Herpetology Collections
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.
Webinar: The Value of Digitizing Fish Collections
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.
Webinar: The Value of Digitizing Mammal Collections
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.
University of Michigan Highlights Herbarium Digitization Projects
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
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.
American Society of Mammalogists and iDigBio Cosponsor Mammal Digitization Workshop
SPNHC2015 Symposium: Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use
An overview. from Deb Paul, Dena Smith, and Vlad Blagoderov
Summary.
ICE 2016 Symposium - Data Without Borders: Collecting, Digitizing, Using, and Re-using Biological Specimen Data
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.
Vertebrate Biologists Gather for a 4-day Digitization Adventure
Demo and Webinar: Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and Indexing of Historical Documents: tranScriptorium and the Transkribus Platform
Hi Everyone, this event is now over, but you can listen to the conversation in the Webinar Recording: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p65yarolyd7/
Digitization of Biological Collections: A Global Focus
Photo: Minky Faber (ALA)
SCNet Webinar: Biological Field Stations as Repositories of Biodiversity Data
30 April 2015
Bringing Herbarium Workflows Up To Date
Updates from the Beyond the Box Digitization Competition
Potential entrants to the Beyond the Box competition have been asking questions regarding rules and other specifics to the competition. The Beyond the Box team have responded by creating a FAQ section on the website and sending out the following update:
Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use
SPNHC Symposium Title: Specimens Full Circle - Collection to Digitization to Data Use
Symposium Wiki: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Specimens_Full_Circle_SPNHC_2015
Listen in and chat remotely: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/spnhc2015sfc (use headset for best experience)
Wednesday May 20th, 2015, all day 8:50am - 5: 30pm EDT and Thursday May 21st from 8:50am-12:10pm EDT.
One Million Dollar Prize for Digital Innovation to Capture Info From Museum Drawers
Photo credit: Reed Beaman, NSF, BIO
Managing Natural History Collections Data for Global Discoverability
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