No specimen left behind: Industrial scale digitization of natural history collections

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 133-146

  Blagoderov, Vladimir ^a   Kitching, Ian J ^a   Livermore, Laurence ^a   Simonsen, Thomas J ^a   Smith, Vincent S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Digitization; Imaging; Natural history collections; Specimen metadata

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864626832     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3178     Document Type: Article

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