How to, and how not to, design a light box: A cautionary tale
by C. Skema, Anne Barber, and Tim Block
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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
iDigBio Retreat 2018
ICEDIG - a design refinement project for DiSSCo. Transforming natural science collections for the digital age.
from Deb Paul at iDigBio
The short version.
March 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Sand Food (Pholisma sonorae)
Photo courtesy of Michael Carters
Darwin Core Hour: The Problem of Time - Dealing with Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Specimens in Darwin Core
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
Webinar: The OregonFlora Portal
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).
Webinar: Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America (DEMCA)
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
Webinar: A new GenBank Submission Tool in Symbiota
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.
February 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Pacarana (Dinomys branickii)
David F. Schmidt, USNM Dinomys branickii, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Mammals
Research Spotlight: February 2018
From the Tropics to the Drawer and Back: Digitized New World Swallowtail Butterfly Specimens Inform Biodiversity Patterns
Contributed by: Hannah Owens from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
January 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Labial view of an upper anterior tooth of C. megalodon.
Contributed by Jeanette Pirlo
We Dig Bio
Registration Now Open: Emerging Innovations for Biodiversity Data
Second Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
4-6 June 2018, UC Berkeley Campus
Darwin Core Hour: Making DNA and tissue collections available by using the GGBN extensions with IPT
UPDATE: Recording here http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pfvb99zx6nle/ packed with lots of information about sharing dna and sample data. You can take the post-webinar survey to share your insights: http://bit.ly/dwchourGGBN
Welcome to our first Darwin Core Hour of 2018! Making DNA and tissue collections available by using the GGBN extensions with IPT
Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Time: 5 PM CET, 11 EST, 1 PM Buenos Aires
iDigBio Update 2017
Dear iDigBio Enthusiasts,
Research Spotlight: January 2018
New Insights from Old Herbarium Specimens
Contributed by Richard B. Primack (Boston University; primack@bu.edu) and Charles G. Willis (Harvard University; charleswillis@fas.harvard.edu)
“Live in each season as it passes - breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit & resign yourself to the influence of each.” Thoreau, in his Journal. 1835
The Momentum for Integrating Collections and Ecological Research: Expanding Collections Stakeholders and Imagining Future Data Needs
by Deborah Paul, Libby Ellwood, Christina Alba, Larry Page
with contributions from our speakers: Dave Tazik, Jennifer McGuire, Anna Monfils, Barry Sinervo, and Elizabeth Martin; and from some participants present at this symposium including (at least): Vince Smith, Mary Klein, Herrick Brown, and Jason Knouft
‘What do we need to leave behind today to position our future selves for success?’
Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science - Symposium at EntSoc 2017
by Deborah Paul, Ana Dal Molin, and Pam Soltis, with contributions from all symposium presenters. Symposium from iDigBio and Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
WeDigBio 2017
ADBC Summit 2017 Report
Natural History Collections as Primary Data in Ecological Research
Prologue: Many of us in the ADBC world look for ways to expand the community of users of museum collections data and to increase the ways in which collections data are used. Recently, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TrEE), an opinion piece was published by Scott A. Morrison, et al. titled "Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist." In this paper, Morrison, et al.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Digitized Collections Data
Contributed by Pam Soltis and Adania Flemming
iDigBio supported five students in its inaugural mini-REU site program during summer, 2017. This program, modeled on NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, was developed to provide undergraduates with research opportunities using digitized natural history collection data.
Digitizing Mollusks Workshop Report
Participants in the iDigBio supported Digitizing Mollusks workshop.
The iDigBio supported “Digitizing Mollusks” workshop was held immediately prior to the American Malacological Society meeting in Newark, Delaware on July 15-17, 2017. Thirty-eight collections professionals from 24 established and developing mollusk collections gathered to discuss the status of Mollusk collection digitization in North America and abroad.
Digitization of the ETH Entomological Collection
Contributed by: Rod Eastwood Curator, Entomological Collection, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Institut für Agrarwissenschaften, Biocommunication & Entomology, Zürich, Switzerland
September 2017 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo Courtesy of Vic Berardi
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