Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections


2015 Event List

Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 01:00, Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 01:00
Smithsonian Institution's Transcription Center onsite transcription event at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Natural History
Washington, District Of Columbia United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 13:00 to 17:00
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York United States
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 08:00 to 12:00, Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 13:00 to 17:00
Provide images, Onsite, Promote, relationship
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Fort Worth, Texas United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 12:30 to 16:30
As one of the participating transcriptions centres, DigiVol and the Australian Museum will be holding an onsite transcription event.
Australian Museum
Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 12:00
Chemical and Life Sciences Lab
Urbana, Illinois United States
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 11:00 to 13:00, Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 11:00 to 13:00
Digitizing our collection of Dungeness and Rock Crabs.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 10:00 to 16:00
We’ll have stations set up to learn about our upcoming project (biotraNsC) and participate in pre-existing projects.
Citizen Science Center on the first floor of the Nature Research Building
Raleigh, North Carolina United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00
FL Museum of Natural History, Powell Hall
Gainesville, Florida United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 09:00 to 14:00
Notes from Nature / CalBug Expedition to digitize Jewel Beetles & Leaf-Cutter Bees from California and beyond
UC Berkeley, Valley Life Science Building, BioScience Library
Berkeley, California United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 08:00 to 13:00
Build a dataset for a biodiversity hotspot—help FSU's Godfrey Herbarium digitize its local plant specimens
King Life Science Building, Room 1058
Tallahassee, Florida United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 01:00, Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 01:00
Smithsonian Institution's Transcription Center onsite transcription event at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Natural History
Washington, District Of Columbia United States
Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 00:00
Onsite Event, Promote, relationship
Museu de Ciencies Naturals de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 13:00
Birge Hall, University of Wisconsin Herbarium
Madison, Wisconsin United States
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 11:00 to 13:00, Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 11:00 to 13:00
Digitizing our collection of Dungeness and Rock Crabs.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00, Friday, October 23, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00
Museums are treasure troves of information about where animals and plants live. Making the information available challenging – but you can help.
Manchester Museum
Manchester, United Kingdom
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 08:30
An in-class event focused on Florida's plants and the value of specimens to science.
**The event is only open to the middle school students of Cornerstone Learning Community.**
Tallahassee, Florida United States
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 08:00 to 12:00, Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 13:00 to 17:00
Provide images, Onsite, Promote, relationship
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Fort Worth, Texas United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 10:30 to 16:00
Meet the people behind the scenes in the Academy's collections and lend a hand in transcribing specimen labels and catalog records.
Chicago Academy of Sciences
Chicago, Illinois United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00, Friday, October 23, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00
Museums are treasure troves of information about where animals and plants live. Making the information available challenging – but you can help.
Manchester Museum
Manchester, United Kingdom
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 09:30 to 10:45
An in-class event focused on Florida's plants and the value of specimens to science.
The event is only open to the students registered for FSU's Field Botany class.
Tallahassee, Florida United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 08:30 to 09:30
An in-class event focused on Florida's plant diversity and the value of herbarium specimens to science.
211 Bartram Hall, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 08:30 to Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 16:30
Please register here for this event: http://goo.gl/forms/2nxE5se4Eo
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois United States
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 00:00 to Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 23:00
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 00:00 to Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 23:00
As one of the participating transcriptions centres, DigiVol will be holding an online blitz for the duration of the WeDigBio 4 day global event.
DigiVol.org
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 00:00
Tours of the Yale University Herbarium will be provided during the event. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, mosses and grasses.
Yale University Herbarium
New Haven, Connecticut United States
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 00:00 to Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 00:00
Onsite Event,
Bay St. Louis-Hancock County Library
St. Louis, Mississippi United States
Monday, October 12, 2015 - 12:00
Botanic Garden Meise
Meise, Belgium
Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 09:00
You can be a citizen archivist! Identify people, places and events in photos from the Hancock County Historical Society’s Scafidi Collection, o
Bay St. Louis-Hancock County Library
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi United States
Sunday, June 21, 2015 - 13:00 to 16:00
In celebration of Pollinator Week, come take part in the Bumble Bee Blitz!
National Museum of Natural History
Washington , District Of Columbia United States
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 08:00 to 12:00
Transcription blitz of specimens from FSU's Godfrey Herbarium
King Life Sciences Building
Tallahassee, Florida United States
Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 08:00 to 12:00
Transcription blitz of specimens from FSU's Godfrey Herbarium using the online site Notes from Nature (www.notesfromnature.org)
King Life Sciences Building
Tallahassee, Florida United States
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WeDigBio 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.