DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections

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A plea for digital reference collections and other science‐based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar. Systematic Entomology 38: 637.

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Michael Balke, Stefan Schmidt, Axel Hausmann, Emmanuel FA Toussaint, Johannes Bergsten, Matthew Buffington, Christoph L Häuser, Alexander Kroupa, Gregor Hagedorn, Alexander Riedel, Andrew Polaszek, Rosichon Ubaidillah, Lars Krogmann, Andreas Zwick, Martin Fikáček, Jiří Hájek, Mariano C Michat, Christopher Dietrich, John La Salle, Beth Mantle, Peter KL Ng, Donald Hobern (2013)
Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history ‘metacollection’. Frontiers in Zoology 10: 55.

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Oleksandr Holovachov, Andriy Zatushevsky, Ihor Shydlovsky (2014)
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Yuchen Ang, Li Jing Wong, Rudolf Meier (2013)
Using seemingly unnecessary illustrations to improve the diagnostic usefulness of descriptions in taxonomy–a case study on Perochaeta orientalis (Diptera, Sepsidae). ZooKeys 355: 9.

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Vincent Smith, Vladimir Blagoderov (2012)
Bringing collections out of the dark. ZooKeys 209: 1.

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Andrew Edward Z. Short, Torsten Dikow, Corrie S. Moreau (2018)
Entomological Collections in the Age of Big Data. Annual Review of Entomology 63: 513.

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Patina K. Mendez, Sangyeon Lee, Chris E. Venter (2018)
Imaging natural history museum collections from the bottom up: 3D print technology facilitates imaging of fluid-stored arthropods with flatbed scanners. ZooKeys 795: 49.

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Vladimir Blagoderov, Ian Kitching, Laurence Livermore, Thomas Simonsen, Vincent Smith (2012)
No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys 209: 133.

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Riitta Tegelberg, Tero Mononen, Hannu Saarenmaa (2014)
High‐performance digitization of natural history collections: Automated imaging lines for herbarium and insect specimens. TAXON 63: 1307.

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Patrick W. Sweeney, Binil Starly, Paul J. Morris, Yiming Xu, Aimee Jones, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Christopher J. Grassa, Charles C. Davis (2018)
Large–scale digitization of herbarium specimens: Development and usage of an automated, high–throughput conveyor system. TAXON 67: 165.

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Stefan Schmidt, Christian Schmid‐Egger, Jérôme Morinière, Gerhard Haszprunar, Paul D. N. Hebert (2015)
DNA barcoding largely supports 250 years of classical taxonomy: identifications for Central European bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea partim). Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 985.

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Lawrence N. Hudson, Vladimir Blagoderov, Alice Heaton, Pieter Holtzhausen, Laurence Livermore, Benjamin W. Price, Stéfan van der Walt, Vincent S. Smith, Nico Cellinese (2015)
Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections. PLOS ONE 10: e0143402.

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Laura Johnson, Beth Mantle, Janet Gardner, Patricia Backwell (2013)
Morphometric measurements of dragonfly wings: the accuracy of pinned, scanned and detached measurement methods. ZooKeys 276: 77.

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Marco Pombi, Wamdaogo M Guelbeogo, Maria Calzetta, N’Fale Sagnon, Vincenzo Petrarca, Vincenzo La Gioia, Alessandra della Torre (2015)
Evaluation of a protocol for remote identification of mosquito vector species reveals BG-Sentinel trap as an efficient tool for Anopheles gambiae outdoor collection in Burkina Faso. Malaria Journal 14: .

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John W.H. Trueman, David K. Yeates (2015)
Can whole-drawer images measure up? A reply to Johnson et al. (2013)?. ZooKeys 500: 141.

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Gil Nelson, Patrick Sweeney, Lisa E. Wallace, Richard K. Rabeler, Dorothy Allard, Herrick Brown, J. Richard Carter, Michael W. Denslow, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Charlotte C. Germain‐Aubrey, Ed Gilbert, Emily Gillespie, Leslie R. Goertzen, Ben Legler, D. Blaine Marchant, Travis D. Marsico, Ashley B. Morris, Zack Murrell, Mare Nazaire, Chris Neefus, Shanna Oberreiter, Deborah Paul, Brad R. Ruhfel, Thomas Sasek, Joey Shaw, Pamela S. Soltis, Kimberly Watson, Andrea Weeks, Austin R. Mast (2015)
Digitization workflows for flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and fungi. Applications in Plant Sciences 3: .

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Leonardo M. Borges, Victor Candido Reis, Rafael Izbicki, Natalie Cooper (2020)
Schrödinger's phenotypes: Herbarium specimens show two‐dimensional images are both good and (not so) bad sources of morphological data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1296.

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Riitta Tegelberg, Jere Kahanpaa, Janne Karppinen, Tero Mononen, Zhenzhe Wu, Hannu Saarenmaa (2017)
Mass Digitization of Individual Pinned Insects Using Conveyor-Driven Imaging. 2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) : 523.

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Lorenz Wührl, Kirsten Rotmann, Rudolf Meier, Emily Hartop, Nathalie Klug, Christian Pylatiuk (2023)
DiversityScanner-360°: An Automated System for Digitizing Invertebrate Bulk Samples. 2023 3rd International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) : 226.

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