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Across September and October, the international biodiversity informatics community gathered in Oslo, Norway, for the annual conference of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG 2026) and the 33rd Governing Board meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). With BHL celebrating its twentieth anniversary and its first year as an independent, globally governed ...

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Walter Faxon’s ornithological field journals contain thousands of bird observations spanning more than three decades. Now digitized and transcribed using AI-assisted tools, these handwritten records are unlocking historical biodiversity data that could help us better understand environmental change over time.

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When a handwritten entomological notebook by Carrie B. Aaron was digitized for BHL, it opened a window onto the life and work of a little-known woman in the natural sciences. Briana Giasullo explores how digitization, archival research, and linked data can help reconnect scattered traces of a person’s story and lead to new discoveries.

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