1. iDigBio: Addressing a BIO Big Data Challenge

2. A. Matsunaga, et al. 2013 IEEE e-Science. 2013: 78-87 How iDigBio is Different

3. The Data Landscape is Changing https://www.idigbio.org/content/collaborating-institutions

4. Research Use & Training Cloud-Based Data Store Community Building Tools, APIs & Workflows Outreach/ Education Data Capture/ Annotation Best Practices

5. Community Building is Key

6. A. Matsunaga, et al. 2013 IEEE e-Science. 2013: 78-87 CI Design: Integrate, Leverage, Re-Use

7. now2050 now2050 Flatspike sedge (Abildgaardia ovata) Scrub plum (Prunus geniculata) C. Germain-Aubrey et al. - 1600 spp., 511,000 GPS iDigBio Data Lead to Discovery

8. Accelerating Digitization of Biodiversity Research Specimens through Online Public Participation Aiming Up: Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Undergraduate Education in Biology A Computational- and Storage-Cloud for Integration of Biodiversity Collections Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of biological collections Augmenting optical character recognition (OCR) for improved digitization: Strategies to access scientific data in natural history collections A workflow for text extraction and parsing for herbarium specimens Integrating specimen databases and revisionary systematics Reaching Consensus in Crowdsourced Transcription of Biocollections Information Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery A Specimen-based View of the World: Using the Biological Collections Ontology to Model Biodiversity Collections And to Best Practices

9. NSF Plays an Active Role

10. Bridging Investments: Trees + Specimens + Tools

11. http://www.dataone.org Community Input: Now and Future

12. A Model for Community-Driven CI

13. Anne Maglia amaglia@nsf.gov @ammaglia NSF/BIO/DBI iDigBio: http://www.idigbio.org