Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of biological collections

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-45

  Nelson, Gil ^a   Paul, Deborah ^a   Riccardi, Gregory ^a   Mast, Austin R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADBC; Biodiversity informatics; Biological specimen collections; Curation; Digitization; IDigBio; Imaging; Paleontological specimen collections; Task cluster; Workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864590933     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3135     Document Type: Article

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