Title: An Attribution Darwin Core Extension - What Would That Look Like?
Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
Time: 11 AM (EDT), 10 CDT, 12 noon Buenos Aires, 4 PM London, 15:00 UTC
Summit 2018 group photo
Utilising publicly available species occurrence records to generate contemporary estimates of medically important snake species distributions
Contributed by: Joshua Longbottom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Workshop Group Photo
Contributed by: Timothy J. Baroni & Andrew N. Miller
State University of New York, Cortland, NY and University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Chlorophyllum molybdites (Image courtesy of Roy Halling)
Images courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer
Contributed by Randy Singer
Contributed by: Osrica Mclean and Declan McCabe
How can you provide an authentic opportunity for undergraduate students to study geographical variation without hauling them to major metropolitan museums and arranging access to valuable specimens? This question started a slightly obsessive odyssey that began with a single coyote skull and now stands at 125 skulls….and counting.
Over 240 biodiversity and data scientists, including more than 30 students and representing at least 7 countries, assembled a
After two days of soaking up talks and plenary keynotes focused on the theme of Emerging Innovations for Biodiversity Data, 20 participants gathered together to share what ideas inspired them.
by C. Skema, Anne Barber, and Tim Block
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
The digitization of natural history collections is time-consuming and expensive, but it opens up new possibilities for science: By merging collection data into global databases and with free access for everyone, researchers can gain new insights.
from Deb Paul at iDigBio
The short version.
Photo courtesy of Michael Carters
Title: The Problem of Time: Dealing with Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Specimens in Darwin Core
Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Time: 1 PM (DST), 12 CDT, 2 PM Buenos Aires, 6 PM London, 17:00 UTC
Title: The OregonFlora Portal
Speaker: Linda Hardison
Date: Wednesday 4/25/2018
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern Time
Location: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Linda Hardison will demonstrate the novel ways they are using the Symbiota platform to package information for gardeners, ecologists, restorationists, and policy makers about the plants of Oregon. (The new portal display will be operational before the webinar).
Title: Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America (DEMCA)
Speaker: Jonathan Amith
Date: Wednesday 3/14/2018
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern Time
Location: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Title: A new GenBank Submission Tool in Symbiota
Speaker: Andy Miller
Date: Thursday 3/8/2018
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern Time
Location: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Andy will review the new GenBank Sequence Submission Tool module linking specimen data and genetic data.
David F. Schmidt, USNM Dinomys branickii, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Mammals
Contributed by: Hannah Owens from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Labial view of an upper anterior tooth of C. megalodon.
Contributed by Jeanette Pirlo
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