Welcome

Director Attends United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya
Institute Hosts inaugural Meeting for Advancing Participatory Sciences in Florida
Director is Founding Board Member of Citizen Science Global Partnership
iDigBio’s Phase 3 Funded

The Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication (iDigInfo) is a research institute in Florida State University's College of Communication and Information. Our mission is to advance the science of information creation, organization, use, and communication to catalyze research discoveries and solutions to society’s grand challenges.

We are distinctively multidisciplinary in our approach, merging the rigor of information science and science communication with other domain expertise across campus. We welcome new, innovative collaborations. Contact the Director (Austin Mast) to get the ball rolling.

What We Do

We provide a home for innovative, multidisciplinary projects centered on large-scale information creation, organization, use, and communication, with ready access to world-class information science expertise.

Our Projects

BIOSPEX

BIOSPEX is a base camp for launching, advertising, and managing targeted efforts to digitize the world's 3 billion biodiversity research specimens in ways that involve the public. view

WeDigBio

Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, or WeDigBio, is a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunity, all rolled into one. view

Rapid Pandemic Response

The project is enhancing data about the world’s 90,000+ specimens of horseshoe bats and relatives (known reservoirs for coronaviruses) and establishing crisis response protocols for the biodiversity collections community. view

iDigBio

iDigBio is the US NSF’s National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections—it catalyzes excellence in the creation of digital data about biodiversity specimens. view

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Staff Spotlight

Gil Nelson

Faculty Researcher

Dr. Gil Nelson is a writer, naturalist, and educator who works in Tallahassee, Florida and lives in southwest Georgia. He writes, speaks, edits, and consults on botany, natural history, ecology, outdoor recreation, and environmental science... more