Digitization
Digitization Project Finds Anthrax in Collections
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
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."
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.
Vertebrate Biologists Gather for a 4-day Digitization Adventure
Digitization of Biological Collections: A Global Focus
Photo: Minky Faber (ALA)
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:
One Million Dollar Prize for Digital Innovation to Capture Info From Museum Drawers
Photo credit: Reed Beaman, NSF, BIO
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