Digital Libraries for Biodiversity and Natural History Collections

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Date
2010-10
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Publisher
American Society for Information Science and Technology
Abstract

This panel aims to discuss the importance of creating digital libraries for biodiversity and natural history collections, the state of the art in terms of standards, best practices and the challenges that natural history museums and herbaria face when trying to digitize their collections, and the creation and management of personal digital libraries for botanical learning.

Description
5 p.
Keywords
digital libraries, biodiversity collections, natural history collections
Citation
Ruiz, M., Kramer-Duffield, J., Greenberg, J., & Hall, N. (2009). Digital libraries for biodiversity and natural history collections. Proceedings of the 72nd ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 46(1), Vancouver, BC, 2009.