@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}
}
