Natural History Specimen Digitization: Challenges and Concerns

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Biodiversity Informatics

• Publication date

  2010-10-09

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.17161/BI.V7I2.3992
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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