Crowdsourcing

Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections

The aim of this free, online Digitization Academy course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public participation in digitization wor

Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections

This free, online course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a biodiversity collections digitization project that successfully engages the public in online settings.  

This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as collections managers, curators, student technicians, administrators, or others. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types.  Participants do not need prior knowledge of biodiversity informatics or specialized software. 

Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections

We are excited to announce the return of our popular professional development opportunity: Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections.

This free online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing.

SPNHC-TDWG2018 Symposium - Challenges Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback

SPNHC-TDWG2018 Symposium - Challenges Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience.

Alternative title: Data Integration can be an insightful process, but somewhat of a sticky wicket!

ICEDIG - a design refinement project for DiSSCo. Transforming natural science collections for the digital age.

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!).

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