Accelerating the digitization of biodiversity research specimens through online public participation

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 383-396

  Ellwood, Elizabeth R ^a   Dunckel, Betty A ^b   Flemons, Paul ^c   Guralnick, Robert ^d   Nelson, Gil ^a   Newman, Greg ^e   Newman, Sarah ^f   Paul, Deborah ^g   Riccardi, Greg ^a   Rios, Nelson ^h   Seltmann, Katja C ⁱ   Mast, Austin R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^g IDigBio   (United States)

^h TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Biodiversity Research Institute ^*

Author keywords

citizen science; crowdsourcing; digital humanities; digitization of biodiversity research collections; public participation in scientific research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926624087     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv005     Document Type: Review

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