Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science
New information technologies have enabled the scientific collections community and its stakeholders to adapt, adopt, and leverage novel approaches for a nearly 300 years old scientific discipline. Now, few can credibly question the transformational impact of technology on efforts to digitize scienti...
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| description | New information technologies have enabled the scientific collections community and its stakeholders to adapt, adopt, and leverage novel approaches for a nearly 300 years old scientific discipline. Now, few can credibly question the transformational impact of technology on efforts to digitize scientific collections, as IT now reaches into almost every nook and cranny of society. Five to ten years ago this was not the case. Digitization is an activity that museums and academic institutions increasingly recognize, though many still do not embrace, as a means to boost the impact of collections to research and society through improved access. The acquisition and use of scientific collections is a global endeavor, and digitization enhances their value by improved access to core biodiversity information, increases use, relevance and potential downstream value, for example, in the management of natural resources, policy development, food security, and planetary and human health. This paper examines new opportunities to design and implement infrastructure that will support not just mass digitization efforts, but also a broad range of research on biological diversity and physical sciences in order to make scientific collections increasingly relevant to societal needs and interest. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7478572bdeb84352b775eb49c76754c02022-12-21T21:21:36ZengPensoft PublishersZooKeys1313-29891313-29702012-07-01209071710.3897/zookeys.209.33132928Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity scienceReed BeamanNico CellineseNew information technologies have enabled the scientific collections community and its stakeholders to adapt, adopt, and leverage novel approaches for a nearly 300 years old scientific discipline. Now, few can credibly question the transformational impact of technology on efforts to digitize scientific collections, as IT now reaches into almost every nook and cranny of society. Five to ten years ago this was not the case. Digitization is an activity that museums and academic institutions increasingly recognize, though many still do not embrace, as a means to boost the impact of collections to research and society through improved access. The acquisition and use of scientific collections is a global endeavor, and digitization enhances their value by improved access to core biodiversity information, increases use, relevance and potential downstream value, for example, in the management of natural resources, policy development, food security, and planetary and human health. This paper examines new opportunities to design and implement infrastructure that will support not just mass digitization efforts, but also a broad range of research on biological diversity and physical sciences in order to make scientific collections increasingly relevant to societal needs and interest.http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2928 |
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| title | Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science |
| title_full | Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science |
| title_fullStr | Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science |
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| title_sort | mass digitization of scientific collections new opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwrite biodiversity science |
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