This past weekend, Oct. 19-20, we held our 3rd Annual WeDigBio event. WeDigBio or Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections is a worldwide citizen science event that mobilizes volunteers to transcribe dark label data on biological collections onto a globally accessible platform.
The event started with some details about our collections and volunteer training.
After becoming transcription experts, the volunteers started transcribing.
Throughout the event, volunteers played games and won prizes from local businesses!
Not pictured were prizes won from Jupiter’s and Brainstorm Escapes
The weekend transcription blitz ended with nearly 2600 records transcribed!
The INHS Herbarium would like to thank all of the volunteers who came to the 2018 WeDigBio at Illinois and the wonderful local businesses who showed their support.