A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now

Thomas Borsch; Albert-Dieter Stevens; Eva Häffner; Anton Güntsch; Walter G. Berendsohn; Marc Appelhans; Christina Barilaro; Bánk Beszteri; Frank Blattner; Oliver Bossdorf; Helmut Dalitz; Stefan Dressler; Rhinaixa Duque-Thüs; Hans-Joachim Esser; Andreas Franzke; Dethardt Goetze; Michaela Grein; Uta Grünert; Frank Hellwig; Jörn Hentschel; Elvira Hörandl; Thomas Janßen; Norbert Jürgens; Gudrun Kadereit; Timm Karisch; Marcus Koch; Frank Müller; Jochen Müller; Dietrich Ober; Stefan Porembski; Peter Poschlod; Christian Printzen; Martin Röser; Peter Sack; Philipp Schlüter; Marco Schmidt; Martin Schnittler; Markus Scholler; Matthias Schultz; Elke Seeber; Josef Simmel; Michael Stiller; Mike Thiv; Holger Thüs; Natalia Tkach; Dagmar Triebel; Ursula Warnke; Tanja Weibulat; Karsten Wesche; Andrey Yurkov; Georg Zizka

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Max Wieners, Marco Thines, Markus Scholler (2024)
Hidden treasures—historical specimens from the late blight pandemic discovered in the Herbarium of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 131: 1113.

DOI: 10.1007/s41348-024-00907-z

M. Elena Reiner‐Drehwald, Elvira Hörandl, Marc S. Appelhans (2022)
Digitization of the historical Herrenhausen Herbarium at Göttingen (GOET), with special focus on plants collected in Switzerland in 1820. TAXON 71: 650.

DOI: 10.1002/tax.12660

Paige R. Chesshire, Erica E. Fischer, Nicolas J. Dowdy, Terry L. Griswold, Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr, John S. Ascher, Laura M. Guzman, Keng‐Lou James Hung, Neil S. Cobb, Lindsie M. McCabe (2023)
Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap. Ecography 2023: .

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André Luís de Gasper, Gustavo Heiden, Leonardo M. Versieux, Paula M. Leitman, Rafaela C. Forzza (2021)
Challenges and lessons learned from digitizing small Brazilian herbaria. Acta Botanica Brasilica 35: 689.

DOI: 10.1590/0102-33062020abb0246

Andriy Novikov, Anastasiia Savytska, Oleksandr Kuzyarin, Viktor Nachychko, Solomia Susulovska, Volodymyr Rizun, Andrii Susulovsky, Habriel Hushtan, Kateryna Hushtan, Dmytro Leleka (2024)
Data mobilisation in the LWS Herbarium: success and prospects. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e117292

Quentin Groom, Mathias Dillen, Wouter Addink, Arturo H. Ariño, Christian Bölling, Pierre Bonnet, Lorenzo Cecchi, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Rui Figueira, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Olwen Grace, Anton Güntsch, Helen Hardy, Pieter Huybrechts, Roger Hyam, Alexis Joly, Vamsi Krishna Kommineni, Isabel Larridon, Laurence Livermore, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Sofie Meeus, Jeremy Miller, Kenzo Milleville, Renato Panda, Marc Pignal, Jorrit Poelen, Blagoj Ristevski, Tim Robertson, Ana Rufino, Joaquim Santos, Maarten Schermer, Ben Scott, Katja Seltmann, Heliana Teixeira, Maarten Trekels, Jitendra Gaikwad (2023)
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e109439

Marcin Nobis, Ewelina Klichowska, Mateusz Wolanin, Agnieszka Nobis, Arkadiusz Nowak (2022)
Typification of five plant names described based on specimens collected by Józef Warszewicz in Central and South America. PhytoKeys 192: 45.

DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.192.78409

Krisztina Lohonya, Laurence Livermore, Jacek Wajer, Robyn Crowther, Elizabeth Devenish (2022)
Digitisation of the Natural History Museum’s collection of Dalbergia, Pterocarpus and the subtribe Phaseolinae (Fabaceae, Faboideae). Biodiversity Data Journal 10: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e94939

Daniel Mietchen, Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Boriana Ovcharova, Iva Kostadinova (2021)
Open science in practice: 300 published research ideas and outcomes illustrate how RIO Journal facilitates engagement with the research process. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.7.e68595

Francesco Roma-Marzio, Simonetta Maccioni, David Dolci, Giovanni Astuti, Nicoletta Magrini, Federica Pierotti, Roberta Vangelisti, Lucia Amadei, Lorenzo Peruzzi (2023)
Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD). PhytoKeys 234: 107.

DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.234.109464

Luiz M. R. Gadelha, Pedro C. de Siracusa, Eduardo Couto Dalcin, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Douglas A. Augusto, Eduardo Krempser, Helen Michelle Affe, Raquel Lopes Costa, Maria Luiza Mondelli, Pedro Milet Meirelles, Fabiano Thompson, Marcia Chame, Artur Ziviani, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira (2021)
A survey of biodiversity informatics: Concepts, practices, and challenges. WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 11: .

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Ben Scott, Laurence Livermore (2021)
Extracting Data at Scale: Machine learning at the Natural History Museum. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: .

DOI: 10.3897/biss.5.74031

Dagmar Triebel, Camila Uribe-Holguin, Stefan Seifert, Markus Weiss, Peter Scholz (2022)
Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: .

DOI: 10.3897/biss.6.93585

Aireen Phang, Hannah Atkins, Peter Wilkie (2022)
The effectiveness and limitations of digital images for taxonomic research. TAXON 71: 1063.

DOI: 10.1002/tax.12767

Abdelaziz Triki, Bassem Bouaziz, Walid Mahdi, Hamdi Hamed, Jitendra Gaikwad (2022)
Deep learning based approach for digitized herbarium specimen segmentation. Multimedia Tools and Applications 81: 28689.

DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-12935-8

Sohaib Younis, Marco Schmidt, Claus Weiland, Stefan Dressler, Bernhard Seeger, Thomas Hickler (2020)
Detection and annotation of plant organs from digitised herbarium scans using deep learning. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: .

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Mauro Mandrioli (2023)
From Dormant Collections to Repositories for the Study of Habitat Changes: The Importance of Herbaria in Modern Life Sciences. Life 13: 2310.

DOI: 10.3390/life13122310

Timothy R. Pearce, Alexandre Antonelli, Francis Q. Brearley, Charlotte Couch, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Susana C. Gonçalves, Sékou Magassouba, Marli P. Morim, Gregory M. Mueller, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Matija Obreza, Suzanne Sharrock, Monique S. J. Simmonds, Beri Bonglim Tambam, Timothy M. A. Utteridge, Elinor Breman (2020)
International collaboration between collections‐based institutes for halting biodiversity loss and unlocking the useful properties of plants and fungi. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 2: 515.

DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10149

Abdelaziz Triki, Bassem Bouaziz, Jitendra Gaikwad, Walid Mahdi (2021)
Neural Information Processing. Chapter 33: 402.

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