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SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST Virtual 2020
May 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
Darwin Core Hour & 2 BBQs: Imagining a global gazetteer of georeferences
UPDATE:
►►► Register Here if you plan to attend BBQ session 2 - on Thurday 7 May.
Virtual Resources for Your Life During Social Distancing
Many things have changed rapidly and these are unprecedented and stressful times, but one positive for our team now all working remotely are all of the new coworkers!
Research Spotlight: April 2020
Contributed by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Find him on Twitter @LuisDVerde or on his Website.
April 2020: Biodiversity Spotlight
Margay
Running Collaborative Online Meetings - an international interactive workshop
Darwin Core Hour: BioCASe Provider Software - the Hands-on Session
Title: BioCASe Provider Software and ABCD: A Universal Approach for Biodiversity Collection Data
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020
Where: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/962488863
Time (1 Hour): 11 AM EDT, 17:00 CEST, 15:00 GMT
3-day Training to Develop a Sustainability Plan
Register now: 3-day Training to Develop a Sustainability Plan
The Sustaining Biological Infrastructure (SBI) Training Initiative is offering a spring session of their 3 day Strategies for Success course.
Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
Reposting: Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections from GBIF under the auspices of the Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge and the SYNTHESYS+ project.
Release date: 2020-02-24 v1.0
Does Biodiversity Informatics Love Wikidata?
Reposting: Does Biodiversity Informatics Love Wikidata? by Quentin Groom and Deborah Paul
Release date: 2020-02-21
February 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight

Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis
Darwin Core Hour: BioCASe Provider Software and ABCD: A Universal Approach for Biodiversity Collection Data
UPDATE: Webinar Recording via Zoom.
See Survey Link in Webinar to provide your feedback!
Biodiversity Next 2019: vision, inspiration, action for our collective future
Deborah L Paul, Capacity Development Manager
October 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Being Loved To Death – A Third of Cacti at Risk of Extinction
ADBC Summit 2019 Report
Data Questions? Data Help Desk has the Answers
Originally published by the Ecological Society of America, Ecotone Blog (after ESA/USSEE 2019 Conference). Reposted with permission from ESA.
Amber E. Budden, Megan Carter, Jeanette Clark, Kyle Copas, Stevan Earl, Megan A. Jones, Margaret O’Brien, Deborah L Paul, Dmitry Schigel, Kristin Vanderbilt, Rebekah Wallace
2019 TCN and PEN Awards
Welcome to all of the newly NSF-funded Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) projects. This year we have three new Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) and six Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) joining the community.
2019 TCNs:
oVert Workshop: 3D Vertebrates, From Museum Shelves to Classrooms
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
SoRo Mountain TCN Field to Digital Object Workshop introduces undergraduate students to museum careers
Contributed by: J Ryan Allen, Dina Clark and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado)
BioQUEST and QUBES Summer Workshop 2019
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
Images courtesy of Adam Fagen
July 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
Article and photos contributed by Natasza Fontaine
American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) 2019
The 99th Annual Meeting and Centennial Celebration of the American Society of Mammalogists took place 28 June to 2 July 2019, at the birthplace of ASM, Washington, DC. iDigBio helped to mark this important milestone through organizing a session on broadening representation in mammalogy as well organizing the first ever Data Help Desk at ASM.
Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference: Methods, Protocols, and Analytical Tools for Specimen-based Research in the Biological Sciences
Research Spotlight: June 2019
Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data
This article was contributed by Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History.
Figure1: A specimen of the cicada Hadoa duryi, available on the iDigBio portal.
June 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article contributed by David Blackburn, Catherine Early, and Ed Stanley from the oVert TCN.
Research Spotlight: May 2019
Conservation Focus: New Insights for Conservation from Expansion of Physical‐Collection Digital Data
Libby Ellwood, Pam Soltis, and Mary Klein
May 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of: David Keil
Article contributed by: Katelin Pearson
iDigBio Hosts the Life Discovery Conference
Bioblitz group photo (Florida Museum Photo Department)