@article {1407,
	title = {SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp: Historical Expeditions Website (Botany) at the Smithsonian},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {The relevance of natural history collections is measured most often by its value to the scientific enterprise.  In support of studies in evolution, systematics, biotic and physical change, we have built enormous collections to document the physical and biological world in which we live.  Our ability to bore into the earth, launch ourselves into deep time, and enter the sub-molecular world of living organisms has allowed us to understand our world like never before.  However, our ability to reach out to a much larger public, one that has the capacity to support our scientific endeavour in a significant way, depends on discovering a more personal connection.  To this end, the United States National Herbarium has constructed a site that describes the details of over 40 journeys of exploration, each of which has produced a collection of plant specimens which are now deposited at US.  Our link to history is one to which most people can relate.  The words explore and discover evoke a special, almost romantic, reaction.  Expeditions are about people and events; they are about struggles against adversity; they are about a time now long behind us.  The content for this website was produced almost exclusively by summer interns, and the resulting presentations are both fun and informative.},
	keywords = {botany, herbaria, Historical Expeditions Website, Natural History Collection, SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp},
	author = {Rusty Russell and Sylvia Orli}
}
@article {1334,
	title = {SPNHC 2014: Progress in Digitization: Using Complementarity to Improve Plant Specimen Digitization},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Unlike most zoological specimens, botanical collections distinguish themselves by having duplicates, that is, multiple specimens generated from the same collecting event. These are either from the same plant or from a close population and are distributed among multiple herbaria.  Over the last two decades, as digitization has become a significant part of doing business in systematics collections, it{\textquoteright}s become clear that a great deal of {\textquotedblleft}duplication{\textquotedblright} of effort has followed  {\textquotedblleft}duplication{\textquotedblright} of plant collections.  Aggregators of specimen data, such as GBIF and iDigBio, recognize this phenomenon, as do individual herbaria.  In 2005, a GBIF Workshop in Crete, led by the late Larry Speers, addressed this topic and Rusty Russell was tasked with investigating the issues surrounding {\textquotedblleft}duplication{\textquotedblright}.  More recently, a joint effort is underway at RBG-Kew, RBG-Edinburgh and the Smithsonian Institution to develop tools to harness the potential that plant duplicates offer toward making digitization a more efficient enterprise.  Past and present activities to address this issue will be described.},
	keywords = {botanical specimens, digitization, duplication, efficiency, exsiccatae, herbaria, SPNHC 2014, SPNHC 2014: Progress in Digitization},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/spnhc2014/17_Russell-SPNHC\%202014-Complementarity.pdf},
	author = {Rusty Russell and Elspeth Haston and Nicola Nicolson}
}
