[Nhcoll-l] FW: iDigBio Spotlight: The September 2014 Newsletter

Bentley, Andrew Charles abentley at ku.edu
Thu Sep 11 12:45:03 EDT 2014 

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PRESS RELEASE
NSF awards $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections
iDigBio issued a press release Monday, August 25, 2014, announcing that NSF awarded $7.5 million in grants, established three new Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), and three new Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) for the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Program. To see the original press release click here<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=f729775d56&e=cfa9ceb771>.





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NEWS
Data Requirements: Needs of Providers and Consumers

iDigBio summarized the needs of providers and consumers of biodiversity data in a report <http://idigbio.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=8dbe49eaac&e=cfa9ceb771> generated from a workshop <http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=257e7009d4&e=cfa9ceb771> discussion considering data and service requirements for aggregators of biodiversity information.




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NEWS
Out of the Darkness- Bringing Biological Collections into the 21st Century

iDigBio Project Director, Larry Page, was featured by Explore Magazine in an article exploring the rationale behind digitization for natural history collections. Read the article.<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=cab9c3d71f&e=cfa9ceb771>




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NEWS
Writing a proposal for the ADBC program at NSF

Have you asked the question: “How can I write a successful ADBC proposal?” NSF and iDigBio have created a document that begins to answer this question. Click here to read the document<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=31cab8e7c6&e=cfa9ceb771>.





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The iDigBio Newsletter has a new name (The iDigBio Spotlight) and a new look. Let us know what you think <http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=f29981ebac&e=cfa9ceb771> about our new look. Subscribe to the iDigBio Spotlight<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=9174a318d9&e=cfa9ceb771>.



UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS




September 13
iDig'dBio@ Imaging Blitz<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=b51cebdd44&e=cfa9ceb771>
Tallahassee, FL

September 16
GigaMacro: High Quality Imaging of Biological Specimens<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=63a6395c3b&e=cfa9ceb771>
12:00-1:00 p.m. EDT
Remote access

September 29-30
Data Carpentry Workshop<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=2506f19060&e=cfa9ceb771>
Gainesville,  FL

October 06-09
Leveraging Digitization Practices Across Multiple Domains<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=9b8b38a9e6&e=cfa9ceb771>
Santa Barbara, CA

October 19-22
iDigBio @ GSA: Advancing the Digitization of Paleontology and Geoscience Collections<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=ab5a56af68&e=cfa9ceb771>
Vancouver, BC, Canada

October 27-28
iDigBio Summit IV<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=afae5131c1&e=cfa9ceb771>
Gainesville, FL






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IN OTHER NEWS




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SPNHC 2014 CONFERENCE:
SPNHC 2014 offers a full-day symposium on digitization

The 2014 SPNHC conference<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=ef0da39c57&e=cfa9ceb771> offered a full-day symposium titled Progress in the Digitization of Natural History Collections. Check out the report<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=93f232d79d&e=cfa9ceb771> to find links to the presentations, attendees, and recordings.



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ENTOMOLOGY TODAY:
Museum Specimens Show How Scale Insects Will Respond to Climate Change

North Carolina State University used museum specimens to understand how global climate change may affect insect populations associated with oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas. Read the article<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=61c0dd8d14&e=cfa9ceb771>.




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ESA 2014 CONFERENCE:
iDigBio meets ESA in Sacramento, CA

iDigBio staff attended the Ecological Society of America<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=9b6a97fe04&e=cfa9ceb771> Conference in Sacramento, CA, to represent the project with an exhibitor booth. Read about their experiences meeting students, ecologists, and educators in this report<http://idigbio.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c564b4cf1e8157b450723e1c&id=ba60016f2e&e=cfa9ceb771>.







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iDigBio is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (Cooperative Agreement EF-1115210). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. All images used with permission or are free from copyright.
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