Mapping Life – Quality Assessment of Novice vs. Expert Georeferencers
This week, the field of citizen science got another notch in its belt with the publication of the first issue of the new journal, Citizen...
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
Experts in digitization, programming, education, crowdsourcing, and outreach and marketing gathered at the iDigBio offices in Gainesville...
Climate change creates winners and losers among birds
A recent study published in Science and led by Stephen Willis and Philip Stephens, compared bird migrations in North America and Europe....
Coding Phenological Data from Herbarium Sheets Workshop
Herbarium specimens are rich with information above and beyond what is written on the label. In particular, specimens can tell us the...
iDigBio and Data Carpentry go to Africa
Location: BIS (TDWG) 2015 Biodiversity Information Standards: An amazing 2 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya. by Deb Paul, input from Libby...
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...