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Integrated Digitized Biocollections

Making data and images of millions of biological specimens available on the web.

Specimens Institutions

About iDigBio

The mission of iDigBio is to promote and catalyze digitization, mobilization, and use of data about biodiversity specimens through training, open data, and innovative uses of these data.

iDigBio was created as the national coordinating center in the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) grant in 2011 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Florida. Florida State University and the University of Kansas are grant subawardees. iDigBio is a GBIF Other Associate Participant Node.

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About iDigBio

Portal Statistics

> 149M
Records

Specimens of animals, plants, fungi, other...

> 66M
Media Files

Associated image, audio, and video files

> 1.9K
Recordsets

Data from biodiversity collections in the US

Biological Collections
are Invaluable.

Estimates suggest that Natural History museums curate 1 to 2 billion specimens in the US and 3 to 4 billion worldwide. Prior to the advent of digitization and data portals, these collections were siloed, located great distances apart geographically, and difficult to visit. Digitization has resolved lots of these challenges.

The data within these collections, accumulated across space and time, are becoming essential in analyses by ecologists, environmental biologists, in conservation, human health investigations, food security, climate change, the bioeconomy, and many more fields.

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Data Services

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Why Digitize?
Video

Why Digitize?

Collections are the best evidence for the history of life on earth outside of nature itself.

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Digitization Resources
Community

For Collections Community

Digitization Resources for curators, collections and digitization managers.

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For Educators
Library

For Educators

Collections-based resources for undergrad, high school, and middle school classrooms and educators.

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Research Updates
Research

Research Updates

Collections power cutting-edge research in food security, emerging diseases, and conservation.

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Natural History Action Center
Whitepaper

Natural History Action Center

Envisioning a natural history collections action center. We held listening sessions. Here's what we heard.

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Corporate Sponsors

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