2.5. Wider data linkages (INFORMATION)

I am baffled that collections are not more proactive in supplementing specimens with field images or more specifically actively coordinating iNaturalist projects and other similar ventures. There are plenty of limitations and challenges with field images, but they are getting better. People are taking images from more aspects and using better lenses and they make the data public within in weeks (passing research-grade certification) and not 5 years that we see with speicmen records. iNat research-grade records have 627 citations to date in publications.