[Taxacom] New article on mass digitization of biodiversity collections

[John Grehan]

Its more or less the same kind of argument made for collections over the
last considerable number of decades, this one with a data-basing spin.
Perhaps it has merit, but perhaps no more than the other pressing problems
of collections (specimen maintenance and study - especially the latter). It
more or less implies that curation is inadequate (threat of specimen
deterioration) and so make an image and all will be well. Wonder if this is
another project where funding will be disproportionate to benefit? And will
it matter if we have burned, drowned, dug-over, dredged, or poisoned all
the habitats anyway.

John Grehan

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:53 AM Miller, Scott via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> The "Day One Project" which "is on a mission to collect and refine the 100
> best S&T ideas for action on Day One of the next [United States]
> presidential term" has highlighted "Mass digitizing biodiversity
> collections of the United States" with an article issued today, by Nick
> Pyenson:
>
> https://www.dayoneproject.org/massdigitizingbiodiversity
>
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