The Living Earth Collaborative and SDS Co-Sponsor Biodiversity Presentation from Missouri Botanical Garden (Links to an external site)

Representatives from the Missouri Botanical Garden and WashU have begun discussing an ambitious new project that would combine botany with data science. Garden staff are currently engaged in a long-term effort called Revolutionizing Species Identification (RSI), which aims to digitize more than 8 million specimens of the Garden Herbarium. The resulting database would include high-resolution images and fully searchable details on each specimen, opening the door for groundbreaking data analysis projects