1 September 2018
ICEDIG second Round Table meeting: From Analogue to DigitalThe second of seven Roundtable meetings hosted within the ICEDIG project was held on Saturday, 22 September 2018 and was part of the Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections and the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization. This Round Table meeting entitled “Analogue 2 digital: faster better cheaper” gathered attendees from museums, herbaria, universities and other organizations concerned with biodiversity research, data management and monitoring.
Read more30 July 2018
ICEDIG at Global Biodiversity Informatics ConferenceThe 2nd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC2), held from 24-27 July in Copenhagen, Denmark, assembled a broad group of stakeholders, several ICEDIG representatives among them, in a follow up conference to the first GBIC held in the same city five years ago.
Read more29 June 2018
DiSSCo Accepted on ESFRI RoadmapLate on Friday (29/06) afternoon the ICEDIG consortium received the great news that ESFRI has formally accepted the DiSSCo initiative - for which ICEDIG is a design study - on its 2018 roadmap update, making European Natural Science Collection a recognised priority research infrastructure, supporting scientific excellence and innovation towards urgent societal challenges.
Read more13 June 2018
First ICEDIG All Hands MeetingOn July, 13th, three days of intense work meetings at the first ICEDIG All Hands meeting came to an end. It brought all project partners and participants together to meet, engage in discussions, promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and to coordinate current and future efforts on the ICEDIG work packages and tasks.
Read more11 June 2018
First ICEDIG Round Table MeetingThe first ICEDIG Roundtable took place on 11 June at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and focused on specifications of a Collection Digitisation Dashboard. Luc Willemse (Naturalis) had invited 20 participants representing CETAF, ICEDIG project partners and external experts.
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