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2020
Journal article
Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research
Natural history collections constitute an enormous wealth of information of Life on Earth. It is estimated that over 2 billion specimens are preserved at institutions worldwide, of which less than 10% are accessible via biodiversity data aggregators such as GBIF. Moreover, they are a very important resource for eco‐evolutionary research,... -
2020
Research report
SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access - Report on the Ideas Call (October to November 2019)
The SYNTHESYS consortium has been operational since 2004, and has facilitated physical access by individual researchers to European natural history collections through its Transnational Access programme (TA). For the first time, SYNTHESYS+ will be offering virtual access to collections through digitisation, with two calls for the programme, the first in...Hardy, Helen ; Knapp, Sandra ; Allan, E. Louise ; Berger, Frederik ; Dixey, Katherine …
virtual data, digitisation, digitization, digital data, access, collaboration, and natural history collections
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2020
Journal article
A cost analysis of transcription systems
We compare different approaches to transcribing natural history data and summarise the advantages and disadvantages of each approach using six case studies from four different natural history collections. We summarise the main cost considerations when planning a transcription project and discuss the limitations we current have in understanding the costs...