Data Without Borders ICE 2016: Difference between revisions
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| Arthropod collection digitization and networking across the New World | | Arthropod collection digitization and networking across the New World | ||
::There are well over 500 million arthropod specimens housed in approximately 1,000 collections worldwide. Although reliable estimates are not available, it is likely that less than 5% of these specimens have been digitized and the current rate of digitization is probably not even adequate to keep pace with the acquisition of new specimens. If we hope to achieve the goal of digitizing all specimens by 2050 we need to develop global networks that can overcome many of the constraints we face today. We will review the current holdings of arthropods in collections across continents and digitization efforts from data providers to aggregators. More specifically, we will assess the type of collaborations needed and the technological and social network areas that are developing to obtain the goal of full digitization. | |||
| '''Neil Cobb''' Northern Arizona University (NAU), Edward Gilbert (egbot@asu.edu), Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ | | '''Neil Cobb''' Northern Arizona University (NAU), Edward Gilbert (egbot@asu.edu), Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ | ||
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