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Portal Updated with the v4 Code
The v4 release of iDigBio's Specimen Portal includes a number of upgraded features that add to its functionality and usability. The IT Team has worked hard to provide the ability to display and query georeferenced data, including latitude and longitude, maximum and minimum elevation, and depth ranges, within bounding boxes.
Workshop Opportunity: Leveraging Digitization Practices Across Multiple Domains
Careers and Graduate Study in the Biological Sciences: A Workshop for Undergraduate Students
To be held at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, September 6, 2014.
Space for this workshop is limited and first-come, first-served. To register and ensure your spot, complete the online registration form at your earliest convenience.
Specify Workshop for Paleontologists and Collaborating to Make it Easier to Start Digitizing
by Deb Paul (on Twitter @idbdeb)
Have you used Specify? Or, are you looking for an easy way to install and try this collection management software?
Specify Paleo Collections Workshop - training, new technology, and data models
guest blog by Talia Karim (University of Colorado) and Una Farrell (University of Kansas)
iDigBio Digitization Workshop at TORCH 2014
by Deb Paul, Joanna McCaffrey, Kevin Love
Hands-On Learning: Fossils in the Classroom
CoGe: Collaborative Georeferencing Demo Webinar
by Deborah Paul for Nelson E. Rios
If you need to georeference hundreds of thousands of localities for millions of specimens, how will you get it done? On May 1st, 2014, 88 people logged in to find out more about how to use CoGe, or Collaborative Georeferencing using a suite of tools developed at Tulane Biodiversity Institute.
Collections for the 21st Century Report
“Those millions of bugs on pins, pressed plants, preserved animals and fossils hold a wealth of information about the adaptive abilities of our natural world, not to mention the DNA and curative uses yet to be discovered.”
BIOSPEX—A Crowdsourcing Management System
The BIOSPEX Management System—Provision, Advertise, and Lead Crowdsourcing Projects
University of Texas Proves an Excellent Venue for Paleo Imaging Workshop
There may be no place better than the University of Texas to conduct a broad-based paleo imaging workshop. This certainly seemed the consensus the week of 29 April at the co-sponsored iDigBio and Jackson School of Geosciences imaging event.
Students Shadow Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fifteen undergraduate students from seven Florida colleges and universities converged on the Florida Museum of Natural History April 17-19 for an all-expense-paid opportunity to shadow museum professionals and explore careers in the biological sciences.
Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Small Collections Workshop: A Student’s Perspective
by Abigail Hollingsworth
Women in Science and Engineering Science Spring Camp
Studies show that as girls transfer from middle to high school, they can perceive science as ‘uncool’ and subsequently loose interest in scientific careers. iDigBio postdoctoral associate Dr. Charlotte Germain-Aubrey, external vice-president of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) at the University of Florida, created the WiSE Girlz Spring Science Camp to contradict this notion.
Biological Collections Digitization in the Pacific
Fossils, Seeds, and Space Rocks: Improving the Management of and Access to the Nation’s Scientific Collections
In a memorandum released today, OSTP Director John P.
Digitizing Source Materials Workshop: A Step Toward Best Practices
The source materials associated with biodiversity collections often contain the most complete and sometimes most accurate descriptions of localities, collecting events, and even the collection objects themselves of any extant documentation.
IDigBio Initiatives for Small Natural History Collections
iDigBio participates in several initiatives designed to serve, support, and connect small natural history collections.
Recruiting Young Biologists at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference
Biodiversity Collections Digitization in the Pacific
Digitizing Original Source Materials Workshop
Careers and Graduate Study in the Biological Sciences
Weekend Digitization Blitz Yields 4,276 Specimen Images for Archbold Biological Station
iDigBio, Archbold Biological Station, Tall Timbers Research Station (TTRS), and the Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University (FSU) teamed up the weekend of January 18th and part of the following week to image Archbold’s entire herbarium collection. Gil Nelson and Joanna McCaffrey hauled a carload of contributed technology, including camera stations and equipment provided by TTRS and FSU as well as iDigBio’s new OR Technologies light box to the south-central Florida field station for the event.
Education & Outreach Workshop
The Education and Outreach Workshop, held in Gainesville, FL from January 15-17, 2014, brought together representatives from each TCN to broaden our knowledge of E&O opportunities, resources, and strategies. Education and outreach are critical components of iDigBio TCNs. These activities are as wide-ranging and diverse as the TCNs themselves, and have likewise engaged a variety of students.
Canada's Museum of Nature is Digitizing 3 Million Specimens. Part of an international movement to put archives online for researchers.
Canada's Museum of Nature is part of an international movement to put archives online for researchers. CLICK HERE to read full article on CBC News site.
By Max Paris Environment Unit, CBC News Posted: Jan 05, 2014 9:00 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 05, 2014 12:21 PM ET
CITSCribe Hackathon
The CITSCribe Hackathon, co-organized by Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project and iDigBio brought together over 30 programmers and researchers from the areas of biodiversity research and digital humanities for a week to further enable public participation in the transcription of biodiversity specimen labels.
Mobilizing Small Herbaria Workshop Attracts Enthusiastic Participants
Any doubt about the importance of small herbaria or the enthusiasm of their curators was certainly dispelled at the recent Mobilizing Small Herbaria workshop held at Florida State University the week of December 9th. Co-sponsored by iDigBio, the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State, the North American Network of Small Herbaria, and the Small Collections Network (SCNet), the event brought together about 30 collections professionals from 25 institutions representing 16 states.
Empowering International eCollaboration for Sustainability: Symposium at Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2013
by Deborah Paul, on Twitter @idbdeb
iDigBio Summit III
The iDigBio Summit III was held in Tallahassee, Florida, at the Aloft Hotel, November 18-21, 2013. Sixty attendees from more than 31 institutions met and focused on shared goals, challenges and opportunities, and collaboration among stakeholders.
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