2024 Spring WeDigBio Event
Introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event,
WeDigBio
WeDigBio's Symposium on Hyperlocal Biodiversity Collections
The WeDigBio Board is pleased to announce a 1-hour symposium entitled “Energizing Understanding of Biodiversity Close-at-Hand with Hyperlocal Collections” on October 13 from 2–3 PM ET (=New York City time). Hear from diverse perspectives on the roles of hyperlocal natural history collections in advancing biodiversity understanding and conservation, and join in the conversation.
WeDigBio 2023 Fall Event
Symposium on Major Motivations Across Scale for Digitizing Biodiversity
WeDigBio's Why Dig Bio symposium.
Three thought leaders reflect on major motivations to create digital information about biodiversity at international, national, and personal scales. What drives the creation and sharing of digital data about the three billion insects on pins, fish in jars, fossils in drawers, plants on sheets, and other specimen types curated by the world's museums, universities, government labs, botanical gardens, zoos, and elsewhere?
WeDigBio 2023 April Event
Introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event (Thursday–Sunday, April 13-16, 2023) and the broader Citizen Science Month!
Let us know your plans, so that your activities can appear on the calendar and we have enough time to get the WeDigBio stickers and tattoos to you for your participants.
WeDigBio 2022 Fall Event
Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, or WeDigBio, is a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunity, all rolled into one. The annual, 4-day WeDigBio events mobilize participants to create digital data about biodiversity specimens, including fish in jars, plants on sheets, insects on pins, and fossils in drawers. During a typical WeDigBio event, some participants are at onsite events hosted by museums, field stations, universities, science classrooms, or other organizations. Those onsite events provide oppor
WeDigBio Event at the University of Florida 2022
WeDigBio 2022 Spring Event
Three ways to introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event (Thursday–Sunday, April 7–10, 2022) and the broader Citizen Science Month!
Let us know your plans by Wednesday, March 23, so that your activities can appear on the calendar and we have enough time to get the WeDigBio stickers and tattoos to you for your participants.
WeDigBio Spring 2022 Event is Around the Corner!
Three ways to introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event (Thursday–Sunday, April 7–10, 2022) and the broader Citizen Science Month!
Let us know your plans by Wednesday, March 23, so that your activities can appear on the calendar and we have enough time to get the WeDigBio stickers and tattoos to you for your participants.
Spring WeDigBio Event
Gather your friends, colleagues, students and family to mobilize natural history collections data during WeDigBio and support critical biodiversity research! This spring, WeDigBio will take place April 8-11, 2021.
Similar to last year, we are anticipating that most, if not all WeDigBio events will take place online, enabled by Zoom, Twitter, and other social platforms. The April 2020 event was the most productive yet and we’re hoping for another great turnout this year!
WeDigBio Strategic Planning Workshop
The workshop is scheduled for four days at the end of January and beginning of February. To enable everyone to participate at a time that is convenient, we have provided two two-hour options (9–11 a.m. ET and 3–5 p.m. ET) for each day. There will be groups meeting on the day’s topics at both of those times, and participants may join one or both of those timeslots each day.
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
An Introduction for Educators to the WeDigBio Event, a Global Data Creation Campaign
WeDigBio Lite expands reach and breaks records
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
Webinar: Energizing Classroom and WeDigBio Events with the BIOSPEX Scoreboard
Energizing Classroom and WeDigBio Events with the BIOSPEX Scoreboard
Friday, Sept 27, 3 p.m. EST, at https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/wedigbio
Speaker: Austin Mast, Moderator: Libby Ellwood
WeDigBio at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Come join us at the Florida Museum of Natural History as we help digitize natural history collections as part of the global event -- WeDigBio!
When: October 20, 2018, from 10am -1pm ET
Where: The Florida Museum of Natural History (University of Florida Cultural Plaza 3215 Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611-2710)
WeDigBio 2018
Crowdsourcing Basics: What is crowdsourcing, and will it work for your collection?
Please join us on Wednesday 20 September at 12 PM EDT, 11 AM CDT for Crowdsourcing Basics: What is crowdsourcing, and will it work for your collection? - the Milwaukee Public Museum experience.
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room (Headsets for best experience!).
WeDigBio 2016
Contributed by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast (iDigBio-Florida State University).
WeDigBio 2016
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 Flora Malesiana 10
Who could resist a conference where the mascot is a giant bright red Rafflesia flower, where bagpipes serenade the participants, and kilt-wearing and traditional folk dancing are encouraged, along with stimulating science? The 10th International Flora Malesiana Symposium was hosted by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland between 11-15 July 2016.
PSC2016 - iDigBio at the 23rd Pacific Science Congress
The 23rd Pacific Science Congress, successfully hosted by Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan brought together scientists from a broad range of fields to discuss progress being made towards a sustainable future in Asia and the Pacific.
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.
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 Histor
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
