Shelley James|Pamela S. Soltis|Lee Belbin|Arthur D. Chapman|Gil Nelson|Deborah Paul|Matthew Collins
Herbarium data: Global biodiversity and societal botanical needs for novel research
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney|Florida Museum of Natural History|University of Florida|Atlas of Living Australia|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation|Florida State University|Florida State University|University of Florida
building centuries research based herbarium specimens gathered time around globe new era discovery synthesis prediction using digitized collections data begun paper provides overview aggregated open access botanical associated biological environmental ecological data sets genes ecosystem used document impacts global change communities organisms society predict future impacts help drive remediation change advocacy botanical collections expansion needed including ongoing digitization online publishing addition nontraditional digitized data fields user annotation capability borndigital field data collection enables rapid access rich digitally available data sets research education informed decisionmaking scholarly creative activities researchers receiving enormous benefits data aggregators including global biodiversity information facility gbif integrated digitized biocollections id igbio atlas living australia ala biodiversity heritage library bhl effective collaboration around data infrastructures needed working large disparate data sets tools data discovery visualization analysis skills training increasingly important inspiring novel research improves intrinsic value physical digital botanical collections