Developing integrated workflows for the digitisation of herbarium specimens using a modular and scalable approach

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-102

  Haston, Elspeth ^a   Cubey, Robert ^a   Pullan, Martin ^a   Atkins, Hannah ^a   Harris, David J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curation; Data entry; Image capture; Large scale digitisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864626836     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3121     Document Type: Article

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