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Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio): The Biocollections Community's Citizen-Science Space on the Calendar
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digitization biocollections critical task direct implications global community use data research education recent innovations involve citizen scientists digitization increase awareness value biodiversity specimens advance science technology engineering math literacy build sustainability digitization support activities launched first global citizenscience event focused digitization biodiversity specimens worldwide engagement digitizing biocollections wedigbio inaugural 2015 event 21 sites hosted events citizen scientists transcribed specimen labels via online platforms digivol les herbonautes notes nature smithsonian institutions transcription center symbiota many citizen scientists also contributed offsite total thousands citizen scientists around world completed 50000 transcription tasks present process organizing international citizenscience event analysis events effectiveness future directionscontent foundational growing wedigbio event