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Systematics

Ellwood, Elizabeth [1], Kimberly, Paul [2], Guralnick, Robert [3], Flemons, Paul [4], Love, Kevin [5], Mast, Austin [1].

Your Invitation to Participate in the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event.

In its inaugural year, the 2015 Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries to produce >30,000 transcriptions from biodiversity specimen labels over four days. Volunteers contributed at 30 onsite events at museums, universities, and science classrooms, as well as individually from remote locations, using online transcription platforms at DigiVol, Les Herbonautes, Notes from Nature, Smithsonian Institution's Transcription Center, and Symbiota. During the onsite events, participants learned about collections and biodiversity, interacted with researchers, played games, and shared experiences via social media, all while creating research-critical digital data. The event's website, wedigbio.org, provided resources for curators planning onsite events in the months prior to WeDigBio, as well as a catalog of onsite events and transcription projects from which participants could choose and a dashboard to show WeDigBio-wide progress over its four days. We invite you to participate in WeDigBio 2016 (Oct 20–23). The event is a great way to simultaneously advance science, STEM literacy, and the sustainability of biocollections and their digitization activities. Please register your interest at wedigbio.org. The talk will review successes and lessons learned during the inaugural event and preview new innovations for 2016, including WeDigBio virtual reality tattoos that use the Libraries of Life Augmented Reality Mobile App.


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Related Links:
WeDigBio
Notes from Nature
DigiVol
Smithsonian Transcription Center
Symbiota
Les Herbonautes
Libraries of Life Augmented Reality Project


1 - Florida State University, Department Of Biological Science, 319 Stadium Drive, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
2 - Smithsonian Institution, NMNH Collections Program, Natural History Building - MRC 106, Washington, D.C., 20560-0106, USA
3 - University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, 358 Dickinson Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
4 - Australian Museum, Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia
5 - University of Florida, iDigBio, NSF's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections, 105 NW 16th Street, Gainesville, FL, 32603, USA

Keywords:
WeDigBio
citizen science
Crowdsourcing
Notes From Nature
iDigBio
herbarium
Digitization
Transcription
Symbiota
DigiVol
Smithsonian Transcription Center
Les Herbonautes.

Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 47, Systematic Methods, Herbarium Digitization & Floristics
Location: 203/Savannah International Trade and Convention Center
Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
Time: 2:30 PM
Number: 47005
Abstract ID:195
Candidate for Awards:None


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