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...
Using Biodiversity Data in Ecological Research: iDigBio returns to ESA
iDigBio returned to the annual Ecological Society of America (ESA100) conference for the second year in a row. ESA celebrated its 100th...
Florida State University Transcription Blitz with Florida Native Plant Society
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of theFlorida Native Plant Society Annual...
Citizen Science grad course at FSU and UF
Citizen science is growing as a research field, as evidenced by the formation of a professional society, a peer-reviewed journal, and...
The Sitch with the Stitch—The CITStitch Hackathon
Internet-scale public engagement in the digitization of biodiversity research specimens, such as can be seen at Notes from Nature,...