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Digital Data 2022: Enhancing & advancing the quality of digitized data

Feb 22, 2022 | Latest, Opportunities

The sixth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference will be held virtually on 23-25 May 2022, hosted by the Field Museum in collaboration with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance. In this conference you will explore digital data tools,...

Training Session | OpenRefine for Data Cleaning

Feb 22, 2022 | Latest, Opportunities

This training session for NSCF scientists will focus on using OpenRefine for cleaning data. Scientists work with data routinely during their research, whether data they’ve collected themselves or data from other sources. That includes specimen data too. And before...

Call for Nominations | South African National Plant Checklist Committee

Feb 22, 2022 | Latest

SANBI is calling for nominations for members to serve on the SA Plant Checklist Committee. They are looking for nominations of non-SANBI plant taxonomists to serve on the committee. Please distribute this call to botanists that you know. Nomination forms are to be...

Specify Training Session & Workbench Workshop

Feb 22, 2022 | Latest, Opportunities

Dr Ian Engelbrecht will be running the Specify Training Session and Specify Workbench Workshop this coming March. Details below: Specify Training Session: 3 March 2022, 9am – 4pm This is a refresher course on Specify basics: data capture, queries, loans and...

The Shark and Ray Protection Project

Feb 22, 2022 | Latest

A bigeyed sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai) investigating the bait. Dr Elodie Heyns-Veale, KZN Museum At the end of November 2021, a group of scientists from around South Africa met on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal to determine the distribution of sharks...

Species collected after 50 years

Feb 1, 2022 | Latest

Kirstin Williams, KZN Museum A field trip to Umtamvuna Nature Reserve on the south coast in October 2021 yielded an interesting find. A horse fly specimen was collected that was last collected in 1971! The species, Tabanus albilinea, was last collected from Port St...

Sharing Is Caring

Feb 1, 2022 | Latest

Siyabonga Zamisa, KZN Museum One of the most important aspects of the museum is to share information and Departments like the Natural Science Department strives to do just that with its collections. One of the mandates for the Natural Science Department, is to publish...

SPNHC Virtual Attendance Grants

Feb 1, 2022 | Events, Latest

The NSCF recognises the value of staff attending international conferences related to natural science collections, specifically conferences dealing with collection and data management, in order to develop local capacity and to establish global networks. The NSCF is...