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View article: Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges
Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges Open
Biodiversity collections in the United States hold over a billion specimens and are essential to understanding the history of life on Earth, as well as patterns of biodiversity in response to environmental change. Each specimen is linked b…
View article: Assessing antineoplastic drug contamination in South African oncology pharmacies: Workplace and biological monitoring
Assessing antineoplastic drug contamination in South African oncology pharmacies: Workplace and biological monitoring Open
Introduction Antineoplastic drugs (ADs) are hazardous substances commonly used in medical oncology, posing health risks to pharmacy personnel through occupational exposure. Despite safety guidelines, contamination of surfaces in oncology p…
View article: BIOFAIR Data Network’s Listening Sessions for Engagement and Data Integration
BIOFAIR Data Network’s Listening Sessions for Engagement and Data Integration Open
During the last two decades, a wealth of data on biodiversity and associated environments has been mobilized in digital form. Collectively, these data provide a powerful resource that when curated and integrated with intention, can provide…
View article: Digitization Coordination Workshop Report
Digitization Coordination Workshop Report Open
Many larger museums and archives have begun to implement a centralized approach to digitization of collections by creating Digitization Coordinator positions. This new effort has initiated a singular vision for digitization that incorporat…
View article: Natural History Collections Imaging Survey Report. Current imaging practices across institutions worldwide.
Natural History Collections Imaging Survey Report. Current imaging practices across institutions worldwide. Open
The aim of this survey was to find out how the existing guidelines and recommendations for imaging natural history collections (NHCs) have been adopted and used by the community and what are the obstacles that hinder their use. The survey …
View article: Assessing the FAIR Digital Object Framework for Global Biodiversity Research
Assessing the FAIR Digital Object Framework for Global Biodiversity Research Open
In the first decades of the 21 st century, there has been a global trend towards digitisation and the mobilisation of data from natural history museums and research institutions. The development of national and international aggregator sys…
View article: Connecting the Dots: Aligning human capacity through networks toward a globally interoperable Digital Extended Specimen (DES) infrastructure
Connecting the Dots: Aligning human capacity through networks toward a globally interoperable Digital Extended Specimen (DES) infrastructure Open
Thanks to substantial support for biodiversity data mobilization in recent decades, billions of occurrence records are openly available, documenting life on Earth and enabling timely research, awareness raising, and policy-making. Initiati…
View article: Advances in plant imaging across scales
Advances in plant imaging across scales Open
New imaging technologies are dramatically transforming all of biology. From remote sensing of continents to computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual organisms or parts of organisms, novel views are emerging that span planetary to su…
View article: Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet
Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet Open
The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an array of asynchronous digitization activities spanning ecolo…
View article: Bridging the Research Gap between Live Collections in Zoos and Preserved Collections in Natural History Museums
Bridging the Research Gap between Live Collections in Zoos and Preserved Collections in Natural History Museums Open
Zoos and natural history museums are both collections-based institutions with important missions in biodiversity research and education. Animals in zoos are a repository and living record of the world's biodiversity, whereas natural histor…
View article: speciesLink: rich data and novel tools for digital assessments of biodiversity
speciesLink: rich data and novel tools for digital assessments of biodiversity Open
speciesLink is a large-scale biodiversity information portal that exists thanks to a broad collaborative network of people and institutions. CRIA’s involvement with the scientific community of Brazil and other countries is responsible for …
View article: Data Standards for the Phenology of Plant Specimens
Data Standards for the Phenology of Plant Specimens Open
Phenological data (i.e., data on growth and reproductive events of organisms) are increasingly being used to study the effects of climate change, and biodiversity specimens have arisen as important sources of phenological data. However, ph…
View article: Highlights and Outcomes of the 2021 Global Community Consultation
Highlights and Outcomes of the 2021 Global Community Consultation Open
International collaboration between collections, aggregators, and researchers within the biodiversity community and beyond is becoming increasingly important in our efforts to support biodiversity, conservation and the life of the planet. …
View article: Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales
Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales Open
Premise With digitization and data sharing initiatives underway over the last 15 years, an important need has been prioritizing specimens to digitize. Because duplicate specimens are shared among herbaria in exchange and gift programs, we …
View article: Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi
Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi Open
Effective workflows are essential components in the digitization of biodiversity specimen collections. To date, no comprehensive, community-vetted workflows have been published for digitizing flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and f…
View article: Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology
Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology Open
Machine learning approaches are affecting all aspects of modern society, from autocorrect applications on cell phones to self-driving cars to facial recognition, personalized medicine, and precision agriculture. Although machine learning h…
View article: The association between physical activity and hypertension among HIV positive and negative populations in rural South Africa.
The association between physical activity and hypertension among HIV positive and negative populations in rural South Africa. Open
Background Hypertension is a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, with considerable under- diagnosis, poor management, and lack of community-wide preventive strategies. Hypertension is a common condition in South Africa and is a ri…
View article: DiSSCo, iDigBio and the Future of Global Collaboration
DiSSCo, iDigBio and the Future of Global Collaboration Open
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) is the United States’ (US) national resource and coordinating center for biodiversity specimen digitization and mobilization. It was established in 2011 through the US National Science Foundati…
View article: Reducing Dependence on Digital Biodiversity Data Silos Through Global Alignment and Collaboration
Reducing Dependence on Digital Biodiversity Data Silos Through Global Alignment and Collaboration Open
Over the last decade, the Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) organization and the Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) grant program, both funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), have made la…
View article: ‘openDS’ – A New Standard for Digital Specimens and Other Natural Science Digital Object Types
‘openDS’ – A New Standard for Digital Specimens and Other Natural Science Digital Object Types Open
With projected lifespans of many decades, infrastructure initiatives such as Europe’s Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), USA’s Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), National Specimen Information Infrastructure (…
View article: Toward a large‐scale and deep phenological stage annotation of herbarium specimens: Case studies from temperate, tropical, and equatorial floras
Toward a large‐scale and deep phenological stage annotation of herbarium specimens: Case studies from temperate, tropical, and equatorial floras Open
Premise of the Study Phenological annotation models computed on large‐scale herbarium data sets were developed and tested in this study. Methods Herbarium specimens represent a significant resource with which to study plant phenology. Neve…
View article: The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research
The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research Open
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of digital biodiversity data. This has thrust natural history museums into the forefront of biodiversity research, underscoring their central role…
View article: The Impact of Digitization and Digital Data Mobilization on Biodiversity Research and Outreach
The Impact of Digitization and Digital Data Mobilization on Biodiversity Research and Outreach Open
The first two decades of the 21 st Century have seen a rapid rise in the creation, mobilization, research, and educational use of digital museum data, especially in the natural and biodiversity sciences. This has thrust natural history mus…
View article: Completing the Data Pipeline: Collections Data Use in Research, Education and Outreach
Completing the Data Pipeline: Collections Data Use in Research, Education and Outreach Open
Type of Submission: Symposium and Educational Share Fair Themes: Digitisation and Collections Data, Collections Access and Use, Education, and Science Communications Full Title: Completing the Data Pipeline: Collections Data Use in Researc…
View article: The ePANDDA project: linking the Paleobiology Database, iDigBio, and iDigPaleo for biological and paleontological research, collections management, and outreach
The ePANDDA project: linking the Paleobiology Database, iDigBio, and iDigPaleo for biological and paleontological research, collections management, and outreach Open
There are several online paleontological resources that serve a diversity of needs: the Paleobiology Database (PaleoBioDB), a database of fossil occurrences built largely from the primary scientific literature; iDigBio, the national hub fo…
View article: Use of globally unique identifiers ( <scp>GUID</scp> s) to link herbarium specimen records to physical specimens
Use of globally unique identifiers ( <span>GUID</span> s) to link herbarium specimen records to physical specimens Open
With the advent of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program and related worldwide digitization initiatives, the rate of herbarium specimen digitization in the United States has expan…
View article: Digitization protocol for scoring reproductive phenology from herbarium specimens of seed plants
Digitization protocol for scoring reproductive phenology from herbarium specimens of seed plants Open
Premise of the Study Herbarium specimens provide a robust record of historical plant phenology (the timing of seasonal events such as flowering or fruiting). However, the difficulty of aggregating phenological data from specimens arises fr…
View article: Herbarium data: Global biodiversity and societal botanical needs for novel research
Herbarium data: Global biodiversity and societal botanical needs for novel research Open
Building on centuries of research based on herbarium specimens gathered through time and around the globe, a new era of discovery, synthesis, and prediction using digitized collections data has begun. This paper provides an overview of how…
View article: Green digitization: Online botanical collections data answering real‐world questions
Green digitization: Online botanical collections data answering real‐world questions Open
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