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TODAY'S HOURS: 8 AM – 5 PM

*Last entry is an hour before closing

WeDigBio Digitization Blitz

The Philecology Herbarium holds over 1.4 million scientific specimens in public trust, including vascular plants, mosses, lichens, fungi, slime molds, and algae, from around the world. Like many other natural history collections, BRIT is in the process of making the specimen images and data available in a digital form. But to do that, we need your help in transcribing information from the specimens. BRIT has joined with other natural history collections around the world to participate in an annual Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event in a concerted effort to increase the amount of natural history data available to research and the public.

Scheduled Activities for October 10-13th, 2024

Thursday, October 10th at 12 PM via Zoom – Armchair Botanist Forum: “Conserving Texas Native Plant Biodiversity: Seed Banking, Biology, & Research at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas”

Join to hear from our very own Seed Bank Conservation Botanist, Kay Hankins, as she leads us on a guided exploration through the journey of a seed from the field to our very own Conservation Seed Bank here at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Along the way, we will also learn more about the importance of plant conservation, the biology of native plant seeds, and some of the many different research projects taking place here at FWBG-BRIT behind the scenes to further support native plant conservation throughout the state.

 
Thursday, October 10th through Sunday, October 13th – Digitization Blitz!

Check out our Armchair Botanist page for instructions for Crowdsourcing in the TORCH Portal.

 

If you’re interested in participating, please email herbarium@brit.org

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Past Events

WeDigBio 2023 April 

WeDigBio 2022 April & October

WeDigBio 2021 April & October

WeDigBio 2020 October

WeDigBio Lite 2020 (April 16-19): Virtual transcription blitzes were attended via Zoom by a total of 38 participants, on April 17th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on April 18th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants helped transcribe labels from Texas specimens residing in the BRIT and VDB collections, contributing to the TORCH TCN digitization project.

WeDigBio 2018 (October 17-20): Participants helped to transcribe specimen labels from ferns and lycophyte specimens in the NLU collection at BRIT, as well as Texas material from the BRIT and VDB collections. We had an on-site transcription blitz on Saturday, October 19th from 9:30am to 12:30pm for the general public, and a transcription blitz for workshop attendees of the Annual Texas Master Naturalist Meeting in Rockwall, Texas, on Sunday, October 10th from 10am-12pm. 

WeDigBio 2017: Online and in-person transcription events.

WeDigBio 2016: Online and in-person transcription events.

WeDigBio 2015 (October 22-25): During this inaugural worldwide event, BRIT held two on-site transcription blitzes that were attended by more than 30 people, including BRIT volunteers, high school students in the BRIT Green Revolution Program, and members of the public.

Department

Herbarium

Point of Contact

Tiana Rehman

Director of Herbarium & Collections Manager

Phone: (817) 546-1845

Email: trehman@brit.org