The inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference will explore the impact of the rapid mobilization of digitized biodiversity data.
Led largely in the United States by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, this effort has resulted in a substantial increase in available data for research and related activities. The conference will encompass the uses of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for “big data” analytics in organismal biology.