[Nhcoll-l] Next installments in iDigBio's digitization webinar series

[Nelson,Gil]

Join us for our November webinars in the Sustaining Collections Digitization Beyond NSF Funding webinar series! These sessions shine a light on creative and collaborative efforts that continue our collective progress with moving biodiversity digitization, data mobilization, research, and education forward.

November 6, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM ET
Florida Museum Undergraduate Internship Program: A Model for Supporting Museum Interns
This session explores the successful museum internship program at the Florida Museum that connects undergraduates with hands-on experiences in digitization, collections work, fieldwork, and lab research. The program emphasizes mentorship, professional growth, and intra-institutional collaboration—offering ideas for creating or adapting similar programs at other institutions. This is an excellent model for attracting student digitizers to collections and museums to supplement digitization activities.

November 20, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM ET
Ensuring Long-Term Access to Biodiversity Data: iDigBio, GBIF, and Beyond
With over 148 million specimen records aggregated into the iDigBIo portal, sustaining data mobilization and accessibility are essential as iDigBio enters its final phase of funding. This session will focus on long-term pathways for data providers and users to work with and through iDigBio and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), ensuring continued worldwide access to biodiversity data and to ensure your data remain safe and widely available.Hints on ensuring your data a direct pathway to GBIF will be offered.

To catch up on past webinar recordings, explore upcoming sessions, and find additional resources, visit the series wiki page:
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Sustaining_Collections_Digitization_Beyond_NSF_Funding:_A_Webinar_Series



Gil Nelson, PhD
Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu

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