The natural history collections community is invited to provide comments on a draft workshop report about integration, attribution, and value in the web of natural history museum data. […]
SURVEY: Harnessing Biodiversity Collections Data for Addressing National Challenges
This survey is intended to elicit information for a stakeholder vision of how to maximize the value of biodiversity collections data for collections management, research and education in […]
BCoN in the News
An editorial in the January 2018 issue of the journal BioScience highlights the important work that the Biodiversity Collections Network is embarking on during 2018. Notably, organizing meetings […]
BCoN Workshop Report: Evaluating Progress Toward Goals of NIBA
In January 2017, the Biodiversity Collections Network convened a meeting in Washington, DC, to ask approximately 30 representatives from various stakeholder groups to evaluate the community’s collective progress […]
BCoN to Convene Collections Communications Workshop
The Biodiversity Collections Network will convene a workshop at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois in September 2015. This meeting will bring together institutional leaders, […]
BCoN Cosponsors Plenary Session on Collections for the 21st Century
NIBA has joined iDigBio and Natural Science Collections Alliance to cosponsor a Plenary Session on 21st Century Collections during the 2015 Society for the Preservation of Natural History […]
Four New Species Discovered in Insect Collections
Four previously unknown cricket species were discovered by a researcher working with insect collections in Spain and Germany. Bruno Massa of the University of Palermo made the discoveries. […]
$1M Available for Digital Innovation that Moves Us Beyond the Bug Box
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) have launched the Beyond the Box National Digitization Innovation Competition. The initiative will award […]
Scientists Announce National Effort to Foster Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
Scientists have launched a new national initiative to build a research and end-user community dedicated to developing a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA). The project is an outgrowth […]
