Every year the Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) convenes an international conference on biodiversity informatics. This year the meeting will be held in New Orleans, October 17-21. In view of recent advancements and progress that are transforming the biological collection digitization landscape, TDWG 2011 aims to galvanize the biological community by focusing the primary theme on “Digitization Methods, Technologies, and Standards for Biodiversity Collections". The conference will provide a forum where progress and new approaches in collections digitization and biodiversity informatics will be exchanged, and invite all biologists and informaticians to attend and enhance this year’s meeting. All abstracts must be submitted before 23:59 GMT-5, September 2, 2011.