WeDigBio 2016
Contributed by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast (iDigBio-Florida State University).
Citizen science
Florida Museum of Natural History WeDigBio Transcription Blitz
FLMNH WeDigBio Transcription Blitz!
Come join us October 22, 2016, from 11am-3pm at the Florida Museum of Natural History to help digitize Florida's biodiversity.
The transcription blitz is part of the Cultural Plaza Festival and will feature games, prizes, and a chance to interact with University of Florida scientists.
Learn more about WeDigBio!
iDigBio at ICE 2016 XXV Insect Expo Education and Outreach Event
iDigBio at ICE 2016 Insect Expo!
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
WeDigBio 2016 Call for Participation
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, WeDigBio 2015, engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries in transcribing specimen labels over four days.
Making it Count: Citizen Science Activities in the Classroom Contribute to Our Understanding of Biodiversity
Speaker: Austin Mast
Abstract: Citizen Science is public engagement in scientific research. This engagement enables data collection at unprecedented scales to address pressing scientific and social challenges while offering new ways to boost science literacy. See how two citizen science projects—online transcription of label data from historical museum specimens and neighborhood observations of present day diversity—generate valuable data and provide complementary activities for addressing biodiversity topics in the classroom.
The Inaugural WeDigBio Event: Global Event Advances Digitization and Science Literacy
Hundreds of volunteers around the world transcribed >30,000 specimen labels at 25 events over four days (Oct 22–25, 2015) in the first Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event. Events spanned a range of formal and informal education
venues, from middle-school and undergraduate science classrooms to county libraries to museums, universities, and botanical gardens, such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H
WeDigBio 2016 Planning Workshop
Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event
Liberate centuries of data about life on earth! Contribute online either at a museum party or from a computer anywhere on the planet during the event. For more info, visit wedigbio.org.
Mapping Life: Quality Assessment of Novice and Computer Automated vs. Expert Georeferences
In TDWG Symposium C06: Citizen Science.
Tuesday, September 30, 2015
7:00-9:30am EST
Florida State University Transcription Blitz with Florida Native Plant Society
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of the Florida Native Plant Society Annual Conference. This was the third digitization blitz hosted by iDigBio, the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections Thematic Collections Network, and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium.
Call for Participants for Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event
Demo and Webinar: Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and Indexing of Historical Documents: tranScriptorium and the Transkribus Platform
Hi Everyone, this event is now over, but you can listen to the conversation in the Webinar Recording: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p65yarolyd7/
Simultaneous Transcription Blitzes a Success!
Webinar: Practitioner tools and resources for evaluating learning outcome in citizen science
When: April 8, 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/citizenscience-fsu
Speaker: Tina Phillips, Evaluation Program Manager, Department of Program Development and Evaluation, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Title: "Practitioner tools and resources for evaluating learning outcome in citizen science"
Webinar: Zooniverse 2.0, What the Future Holds for Large-Scale Online Citizen Science
When: April 1, 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/citizenscience-fsu
Speaker: Laura Whyte, Director of Citizen Science, Adler Planetarium
Title: "Zooniverse 2.0: What the Future Holds for Large-Scale Online Citizen Science"
Webinar: Filtering out the noise: Data validation challenges and strategies in citizen science
When: March 25, 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/citizenscience-fsu
Speaker: David Bonter, Assistant Director of Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Title: "Filtering out the noise: Data validation challenges and strategies in citizen science"
Webinar: Supporting field-based citizen science: The CitSci.org cyberinfrastructure
When: March 18, 4:00 - 5:00 pm EST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/citizenscience-fsu
Speaker: Greg Newman Director, CitSci.org; Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Title: "Supporting field-based citizen science: The CitSci.org cyberinfrastructure"
Citizen Science in Digitization Review Published!
iDig'dBio@ Transcription Blitz
Citizen Science course @FSU
Citizen science involves the public in the generation of scientific knowledge. With a new professional society (http://citizenscienceassociation.org/) and an emerging journal, citizen science has reached a stage of explosive growth with new opportunities for citizen scientists appearing weekly.
The Sitch with the Stitch—The CITStitch Hackathon
Citizen Science crowdfunding initiative launched
Imaging Blitz participants photograph specimens.
FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium is pleased to announce a crowdfunding campaign running from December 1–15 to raise $2000 to provision six 1-day citizen science events in 2015.
New Article Published on Crowdsourcing Transcription in e-Science
iNaturalist Workshop Report
iDigBio and the Florida Museum of Natural History co-sponsored a half-day introductory workshop to the website/application iNaturalist on Friday, September 26, 2014, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
iDig’dBio@ FSU’s Herbarium Imaging Blitz a Success!
By the numbers:
iNaturalist Workshop
FLMNH and iDigBio are hosting an iNaturalist half-day workshop Friday, September 26th, in the McGuire Conference Room.
Demo Webinar: Strategies for an OCR directed workflow
Accelerating Digitization with Public Participation Talk
Libby Ellwood will present an overview of the field of public participation in the digitization of biodiversity specimens at the Botany 2014 meeting in Boise, Idaho. Libby's talk is 9:15-9:30 in room Payette at the Boise Center.
iDigBio Biospex Talk at Botany 2014
Austin Mast will present on iDigBio's prototype system for managing public participation in digitization of biodiversity specimens at Botany 2014 in Boise, Idaho. It will occur from 8:45-9 a.m. in room Payette in the Boise Center.
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