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Automated collection process utilizes unique object identifiers, QR codes and citizen science
A new automated collection process utilizing unique object identifiers, QR codes and citizen science has the potential to revolutionize the way in which biologists acquire data from museum specimens.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DEB 1916632.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code. (Date of image: 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. 21, 2022)
Credit: Jerald Pinson
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