To understand the ocean - we need to get wet
by Deborah Paul (iDigBio), Gustav Paulay (UF, FLMNH) from #DigIn Workshop
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Biodiversity Data Dialogues: a Special Session at Ecological Society of America 2019
This year, GBIF, NEON, and iDigBio join together to bring a special session called "Biodiversity Data Dialogues" to the Ecological Society of America/USSEE* 2019 Joint Meeting.
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MOBILISE First Training School on Digitization and Data Management of Collections!
The European MOBILISE COST Action sets out "to foster a cooperative network in Europe to support excellent research activities, and facilitate knowledge and technology transfer around natural science collections." As part of their efforts to prepare for the funding and implementation of DiSSCo, they are setting up their first First Training School on Digitization and Data Management of Collections!
MOBILISE meeting on Authority Management of People Names
People need credit for the work they do to make collections and collections data a reality. To do this well, our biocollections community needs robust standards and methods to support this information. Many will reap the benefits of such tracking including those collecting, geoereferencing, and identifying specimens, and those capturing data. To see one example of the benefits of being able to tell who did what to which specimen, have a look at bloodhound.shorthouse.net.
iDigBio at SPNHC 2019: Making the Case for Natural History Collections
The SPNHC 2019 theme: Making the Case for Natural History Collections offers everyone a chance to share the value of collections for society and science. iDigBio staff look forward to contributing to this story and visiting the Field Museum who are hosting this year's SPNHC meeting.
Some of the events iDigBio is organizing or participating in include:
iDigBio in The Digital Future of Entomology - Symposium and Panel at Eastern EntSoc 2019
Digitization of collections provides opportunities to enhance the use of the collections and collections data, discover holdings previously unknown, and influence future standards of practice in the collection and research communities. In this symposium and panel session titled: The Digital Future of Entomology, speakers and panelists seek to share lessons learned, and current trends from digitizing insect collections.
iDigBio Update from 2018
ECN, NEON, and iDigBio Together at EntSoc2018: Benefits of Togetherness
by Deborah Paul (iDigBio), Katherine LeVan (NEON), and Kevin Love (iDigBio)
Benefits of Togetherness.
WeDigBio 2018
Research Spotlight: November 2018
Augustus Fendler Herbarium Specimens: A Locality Improvement Project
A component of the Southern Rocky Mountain Flora Database Project
Lance J. Gloss and Timothy J. S. Whitfeld
Brown U. Herbarium (BRU)
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Introduction
Research Spotlight: October 2018
Metabolic rates, climate, and macroevolution: a case study using Neogene molluscs
Luke C. Strotz, Erin E. Saupe, Julien Kimmig and Bruce S. Lieberman
Darwin Core Hour: An Attribution Darwin Core Extension - What Would That Look Like?
UPDATE: Recording and Slides available at the following links.
Title: An Attribution Darwin Core Extension - What Would That Look Like?
Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
ADBC Summit 2018 Report
Summit 2018 group photo
September 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Research Spotlight: September 2018
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
Shining a New Light on the World’s Collections
Drawers, Jars and Databases: A Workshop for North Carolina Educators
Workshop Group Photo
MyCoPortal helps save life!
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)
July 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Rattails and Grenadiers (Family Macrouridae)
Images courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer
Contributed by Randy Singer
Research Spotlight: July 2018
Digital Coyote; an online archive of skulls
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.
Second Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference: Emerging Innovations for Biodiversity Data
Over 240 biodiversity and data scientists, including more than 30 students and representing at least 7 countries, assembled a
Compelling Content Inspires Unconference Participants at Digital Data II
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.
Microfungi Collection Consortium Teacher's Workshop
Workshop Report: Developing an ontology for insect natural history data
How to, and how not to, design a light box: A cautionary tale
by C. Skema, Anne Barber, and Tim Block
iDigBio reps attend career workshop for undergraduates
2018 US Science and Engineering Festival
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
Digitize, share, connect: Data from natural history collections go mobile
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.
Borderless Collections – Starting a Collections Community (R)evolution
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