1.3. First step towards databasing collections (USE)

I’m wondering if there needs to be more outreach on the types of datasets that people can share? How many collections know that they can publish resource metadata? There are a ton of untapped (undigitized and/or uncurated) specimens in “stratigraphic” fossil collections. Most paleo collections have these types of holdings. Publishing them as structured resource metadata records/sets (e.g., chrono and litho stratigraphic information, geography, collector, minimal taxonomic information) would be a great way to make them more discoverable.

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