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Published: 04-08-2013
Members of the iDigBio UF staff recently visited the new University of Florida Data Center at the Eastside Campus facility. The tour, led by Associate Director of Data Center Operations David Burdette, led visitors through the newly constructed $14M facility. The tour allowed visitors to see the complete operation, from the large server rooms, the monster backup power supplies, and the room...
Published: 03-15-2013
Registration for the 2013 meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is now open. This meeting is being held June 17-22 on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota, home of the Museum of Geology.
The theme this year is "Repositories and Partnerships in Managing Natural History Collections in the 21st Century....
Published: 03-01-2013
More news from the iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group (aOCR wg)
The aOCR wg efforts to find ways to speed up digitization continue. Our working group put together a Wish List and then, at our first "in-person" meeting of the working group in October of 2012, we decided which items in the Wish List to work on first, how to go about working on them, how to share what we are...
Published: 02-26-2013
On Monday, February 25th, iDigBio PI's and project staff met with Walter Jetz,Ph.D. from the Map of Life project. Dr. Jetz shared with us how the The Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide. These data include expert species range maps, species occurrence points, ecoregions, and protected areas from providers like IUCN, WWF,...
Published: 02-26-2013
On February 25, 2013 iDigBio launched a new design for http://iDigBio.org and a new set of features for our specimen portal at http://portal.iDigBio.org.
Meet our Graphic Designer
Jeremy Spinks is a graphic designer practicing mainly in the online arena. Jeremy works at the Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication, at Florida State...
Published: 02-24-2013
Update from the iDigBio Augmenting OCR working group (aOCR wg),
from Deb and the aOCR wg.
Over the past 16 weeks, the aOCR wg has successfully orchestrated multiple initiatives intended to address some key issues on the working group's Wish List. These include Education and Outreach (broadly) as well as plans to establish a baseline of “what’s possible” with...
Published: 02-21-2013
iDigBio Blitz at iConference 2013
February 12-15th, Forth Worth, Texas
The iDigBio Augmenting Optical Recognition Working Group (AOCR wg) is headed to iConference 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas.
What is iConference?
iConference is a yearly conference for the iSchools (Information Science Schools) community. iSchools.org states that,
"These...
Published: 02-21-2013
iDigBio is pleased to announce our 2012 Visiting Scholar, Dr. Anna K. Monfils. Dr. Monfils is an Associate Professor at Central Michigan University (CMU) and the Director of the Central Michigan University Herbarium (CMC).
In her position at the CMC, Dr. Monfils trains students and develops educational tools relating to herbaria. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to science education:...
Published: 02-21-2013
iDigBio Augmenting OCR Hackathon
February 13-14, 2013, in Fort Worth, Texas
Be a part of helping to get "dark data" out of millions of museum cabinets and into online databases!
UPDATE! See Hackathon Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/aocrhackathonwiki and Participate Remotely!
UPDATE! See iConference2013 iDigBio AOCR Wiki February 12 - 15, 2013
Integrated Digitized...
Published: 02-21-2013
Summary
The second annual iDigBio Summit was held on October 23-24, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida, and was completed with great success! The Summit promoted clarification of objectives, communication of progress towards achieving objectives, identification and discussion of challenges and opportunities, and collaboration among stakeholders.
Summit Day 1 focused on presentations from...
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