February 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
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Scientist in the Spotlight: Noé De La Sancha
In our series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. This month, we had a chance to speak with Noé De La Sancha. He is a part of the oVert TCN.
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Report: Integrating Institutional Archives with Disciplinary Web Repositories Workshop
Integrating Institutional Archives with Disciplinary Web Repositories Workshop
The goal of this invitation only workshop is to articulate common practices and potential workflows for sustainable integration between museums, institutional repositories, and third party domain-specialized (disciplinary) repositories.
oVert Workshop: 3D Vertebrates, From Museum Shelves to Classrooms
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
June 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article contributed by David Blackburn, Catherine Early, and Ed Stanley from the oVert TCN.
Idaho Museum of Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally scan bones of California blue whale
Darwin Core Hour: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data
Title: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data: Metadata, Practice, and Unification of Efforts
New TCN Allows Users to Explore 3D Vertebrate Specimens from Inside Out
CT scans reveal details of internal anatomy without damaging specimens. Florida Museum of Natural History figure by Ed Stanley
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch a new initiative to “teleport” specimens from museum shelves to the internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public.
