Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 7-17

  Beaman, Reed S ^a   Cellinese, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity informatics; Data sharing; Digitization; Interoperability; Linked data; Scientific collections; Specimen access

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864576471     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3313     Document Type: Review

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