About the Dashboard

The Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program is to produce millions of digitized occurrence records from natural history collections in the United States by 2021. Architecture decisions, data models, and sun-setting projects have provided challenges that require novel solutions to deliver a programmatic evaluation of the progress of participating contributors and ultimately connect individual specimens to their institutional collections.

Collections Data

All data about natural history collections are managed in the iDigBio U.S. Catalog of Collections. Each record in the catalog represents one natural history collection in the scope of the ADBC program.

Published Specimen Data

Specimen data counts are accessed through the iDigBio Search API

Data Reports

Publisher data reports are generated using the iDigBio Search API "publishers" endpoint.