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Back to the future: A refined single‐user photostation for massively scaling herbarium digitization
Author(s) -
Davis Charles C.,
Kennedy Jonathan A.,
Grassa Christopher J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.1002/tax.12459
Subject(s) - digitization , herbarium , workflow , computer science , scalability , digital collections , variety (cybernetics) , world wide web , database , ecology , biology , artificial intelligence , telecommunications
Abstract The digitization of herbarium collections is greatly transforming plant biodiversity science, yet most herbarium data remain inaccessible. Here, we present a novel, single‐user photostation and associated workflow for efficiently mobilizing herbarium specimens. Our apparatus represents a significant improvement to existing technology and is scalable to a variety of digitization tasks from small to massive collections.