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::Digitization of millions of historic entomology specimens remains an enormous challenge. Our community should not make this challenge worse by generating newly collected, undigitized specimens. Entomologists in North America currently generate many tens of thousands of new specimens annually, that get added to our undigitized backlog. The University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection contains over 1 million specimens represented by ~230,000 database records, of which, 82% have been collected since the year 2000. This talk will describe the rapid growth of our collection and database. Methods used are similar to those established by Costa Rica's INBio in the 1990s. | |||
| '''Derek S. Sikes''' (dssikes@alaska.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK | | '''Derek S. Sikes''' (dssikes@alaska.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK | ||
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