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Welcome to Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), the national coordinating center for the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). iDigBio is enabling digitization of data and media for millions of biodiversity specimens from U.S. collections and is integrating those data to make them available online for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, citizen scientists, and the general public to promote understanding of biodiversity and societal consequences of environmental issues.
Digitizing specimens allows scientists, educators and others to find and use valuable biological information, making data previously stored only on printed specimen labels available to anyone with Internet access. Florida Museum Photo by Kristen Grace.
