Technical staff from BHL are working to establish a scalable data pipeline of occurrence data currently trapped in archival field notes, journals, letters, correspondence, and other primary source materials housed in BHL. Thanks to a pilot project with researchers from Harvard University and volunteer transcription projects hosted via DigiVol, BHL was able to make its first deposit of occurrence data into the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This deposit of historic biodiversity data demonstrates how valuable BHL’s collection is to global biodata infrastructure, as it plays a crucial role in establishing species base lines, informing climate change studies, tracking key environmental indicators, and contributing to the development of global biodiversity monitoring platforms.
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