February 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
The goal of this invitation only workshop is to articulate common practices and potential workflows for sustainable integration between museums, institutional repositories, and third party domain-specialized (disciplinary) repositories.
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
Article contributed by David Blackburn, Catherine Early, and Ed Stanley from the oVert TCN.
Title: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data: Metadata, Practice, and Unification of Efforts
CT scans reveal details of internal anatomy without damaging specimens. Florida Museum of Natural History figure by Ed Stanley
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch a new initiative to “teleport” specimens from museum shelves to the internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public.