IV. SCIENTIFIC DATA AND BIODIVERSITY COLLECTIONS DATA CONCEPTS AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR DATA CAPTURE IN LARGE SCALE DIGITISATION OF BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 111-119

  Haston, Elspeth ^a   Cubey, Robert ^a   Harris, David J ^a  

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Author keywords

Data Capture; Data Concepts; Digitisation; Herbarium; OCR; Specimens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864632362     PISSN: 17538548     EISSN: 17551706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2012.0042     Document Type: Article

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