May be of interest: NSF Awards Second Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections 05/01/2012 02:52 PM EDT
Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed widely across varied and distinct natural history collections. Until now, that has made assessing the information in these collections a difficult task. Last year, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, responded to the need for greater accessibility. More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124031&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click Nadine Lymn Director of Public Affairs Ecological Society of America 1990 M Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20036 202.833.8773 ext. 205 ---------------------------------------------- www.facebook.com/esa.org: "Like" the new ESA Facebook page, ask friends/colleagues to do the same. http://twitter.com/#!/esa_org: "Follow" ESA on Twitter. ESA eStore: Now available: "An Ecologist's Guidebook to Policy Engagement."
