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News Release 12-082
NSF Awards Second Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections
Funding will shed light on current "dark data," and integrate genetic, organismal, ecological information--past and present
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![Photo of visitors peering at insects at the Hasbrouck Insect Collection at Arizona State University.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections1_f.jpg)
Visitors peer at insects at the Hasbrouck Insect Collection at Arizona State University.
Credit: Nico Franz
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![Photo of Marasmius, a fungus in the tropical rainforest of Belize.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections2_f.jpg)
Marasmius, a fungus in the tropical rainforest of Belize, is important to its ecosystem.
Credit: R.E. Halling, New York Botanical Garden
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![Photo of a researcher entering fossil locality data into a computer.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections3_f.jpg)
A researcher enters fossil locality data with georeferencing tools to reconstruct the past.
Credit: Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
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![Photo of field notes written by scientist Gertrude Burlingham during a collecting trip.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections4_f.jpg)
Scientist Gertrude Burlingham wrote these field notes from a mid-20th century collecting trip.
Credit: C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden
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![Photo of a researcher entering specimen images into a computer.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections5_f.jpg)
NSF is fostering development of a partially automated method for capturing specimen images.
Credit: Peabody Museum, Yale University
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![Photo of a researcher taking a high-quality image of a specimen.](/news/mmg/media/images/bio_collections6_f1.jpg)
Careful positioning of specimens and labels is required for high-quality images.
Credit: Paul L. Heinrich, Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity
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