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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We wanted to let you know that the results of an international survey on imaging practices for the digitisation of natural history specimens have now been published in a report available on Zenodo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Marcer, A, Santos, J, Mast, AR, Nelson, G, Ellwood, L & Haston, E. (2023).
</span>Natural History Collections Imaging Survey Report. Current imaging practices across institutions worldwide.
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837354">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837354</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Menlo;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The survey was designed and constructed jointly by members of the EU-funded COST Action, MOBILISE, and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">US-funded iDigBio programme, and distributed globally to gather information from as many institutions and individuals as possible.</span><span lang="EN-US">
</span>There were a to<span lang="EN-US">tal of 702 respondents covering all the main preparation types.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The aim of this survey was to find out how the existing guidelines and recommendations for imaging natural history collections have been adopted and used by the community and what are the obstacles that hinder their use.
The survey covered all types of curated natural history specimens held in institutions holding natural history collections across the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to thanks all those individuals who took the time to respond to the survey.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Elspeth <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Elspeth M Haston</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Deputy Herbarium Curator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://rbge.org.uk/">Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">@emhaston |
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T3LgDsoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao">Google Scholar</a> |
<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#525252;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Search our Herbarium collections online at</span></i></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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