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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?’

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Integrating Collections and Ecological Research

Prairie Fen Biodiversity Project

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BCoN Workshop: Future Research

iDigBio will be participating in a workshop to consider future research opportunities arising from current national initiatives to digitize and mobilize images and associated data from U.S. biodiversity collections. The meeting will be held in Washington, DC, on January 5-6, 2017, and is being sponsored by the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) Research Coordination Network. Participation in this workshop is by invitation only.

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Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA)

There are more than 1600 biological collections (biocollections) in the United States. Scientists have amassed, annotated, and curated in those collections more than one billion specimens. These specimens and their associated data are maintained for research and education and to inform wise decisions about the environment, public health, food security, and commerce.

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New Initiative Will Improve Access to Biological Collections, Data

Scientists announce national effort to foster digitization of biodiversity collections

NIBA Implementation Plan

Recognizing the value of biocollections for research, education, and society, the biocollections community coalesced in 2010 to develop A Strategic Plan for Establishing a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA). The plan issues a strong and urgent call for an aggressive, coordinated, large-scale, and sustained effort to digitize the nation's biocollections in order to mobilize their data through the Internet.

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AIBS Seeks Input on the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance

Developing an implementation plan for the Strategic Plan for a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA)
Reston, Virginia
September 17th - 18th, 2012

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NIBA Strategic Plan

It is important to consider that iDigBio is one portion of a larger biological digitization community. The following links provide an overview of the larger Network Integrated Biological Alliance (NIBA), which includes iDigBio, Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), and other digitizing institutions and strategic partners. In 2015 RCN changed NIBA's name to the "Biodiversity Collections Network" (BCoN).

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