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TDWG is seeking volunteers to join the Program Committee for the 2026 conference in Oslo.

Help shape the program, review submissions, draft instructions, and contribute to a global biodiversity informatics community.

We welcome people from all regions, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and career stages.

👉 Apply now: https://tdwg.link/eoi-conference-volunteer

#TDWG #TDWG2026 #BiodiversityInformatics #Volunteering #ConferencePlanning #WeNeedYou

The Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary is the foundation in many ways for #biodiversityinformatics. They have an important new blog post at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/transition-update-2-call-for-support-now-open.html.

Please engage and share!

BHL Transition Update #2

Help us shape the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is at a turning point. After nearly two decades of calling the Smithsonian Institution home, BH…

Biodiversity Heritage Library

This years TaxonWorks Together is solidifying. We're excited to announce a series of conversations (https://together.taxonworks.org/#Schedule) with guests on #biodiversityinformatics topics that spark our thinking.

Do reach out if you're interested in contributing, from lightning talk to demo, let's talk!

TaxonWorks Together

Annual event about the collective work in the creation of data to Describe life

Catalogue of the Alucitoidea of the World updated.

New combination and generic placement for many-plume species in China and Russia

https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.517.2

Includes a few new distribution records too.

This feeds into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif.

Latest version available on #ChecklistBank:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2207/about

#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #taxonomy #entomology #NewSpecies #BiodiversityInformatics @dhobern

New data on poorly-known species of many-plumes moth (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from China and Russia - Far Eastern Entomologist

Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World updated.

New #PlumeMoth species from #SouthAfrica, Agistis zagulajevi:

https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873824040080

Changes to synonymy and new distribution records from #Georgia:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14720696

This feeds into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif.

Latest version available on #ChecklistBank:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/1199/about

#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #taxonomy #entomology #NewSpecies #BiodiversityInformatics @dhobern

We're not moving, we're diversifying where diversity is appreciated: https://bsky.app/profile/taxonworks.bsky.social.

#biodiversityinformatics

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I’m excited to announce that the two new controlled vocabularies for describing the content of #biodiversity images have been ratified as part of the @tdwg Audiovisual Core standard. Thanks to my colleagues on the Views Controlled Vocabularies Task Group for their hard work over the last five years to make this a reality! #biodiversityinformatics https://www.tdwg.org/news/2023/ac-views-controlled-vocab/
Audiovisual Core Controlled Vocabularies for Views

Two controlled vocabularies for “Views” have been approved and enhance the Audiovisual Core.

DATA BORN IN LITERATURE: 600 YEARS OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SERVING THE PLANET

#biodiversity #biodiversityinformatics #libraries #data #informatics #taxonomy #classification #smithsonian