Bringing 'dark data' into the light: Best practices for digitizing herbarium collections

Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 14:20 in Earth & Climate

North American herbaria curate approximately 74 million specimens, but only a fraction have been digitized. Imaging specimens and transcribing the related data into online databases can vastly increase available biodiversity data, allowing new discoveries. The National Science Foundation's Integrated Digitized Biocollections is facilitating an effort to unify digitization projects across the country through the development of digitization workflows. The workflows, along with details on their development, are available in a newly published article.

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