4.2. Communities of practice (GOVERNANCE)

Areas where the communities (regional, disciplinary etc) overlap is one of the risks to address - for example, a European herbarium might be part of the IH community, the CETAF community and the DiSSCo community. There’s a risk of duplication of effort for that institution if those communities don’t work together to make their collection catalogues complimentary and interoperable. People generally don’t want to provide the same data in more than one place, and there’s a risk to each of the communities if they’re having to compete for that limited resource.

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