Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections


Fungarium Specimen Label Transcription Volunteer Event for WeDigBio 2018

Location

Upper Atrium, Jodrell Laboratory
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
TW9 3DS Richmond
United Kingdom
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Date: 
Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 09:45 to 17:00
Sponsoring Organization: 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Sponsoring URL: 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Short Description: 
During this one-day event at Kew, you will help us unlock information held on the Fungarium shelves and make it widely available to everyone.
URL: 
Event Registration
Taxonomic Scope of Specimens: 
fungi
Family Agaricaceae
Geographic Scope of Specimens: 
British Isles
Temporal Scope of Specimens: 
Some 19th Century specimens
but mostly from 1950-1990
Image: 
Funding Credits: 
Digitising Kew’s fungi collection funded by the HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust.
Organizer Name: 
Sarah Phillips
Organizer Email: 
sarah.phillips@kew.org
Organizer Phone: 
+44 0208 332 5232
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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.