# Annotating specimens and other data

**URL:** <https://discourse.gbif.org/t/annotating-specimens-and-other-data/2419>\
**Category:** Digital/Extended Specimen\
**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/annotating-specimens-and-other-data/2419 "2021-01-30T16:04:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoeMiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gbif1/user_avatar/discourse.gbif.org/joemiller/32/210_2.png) [@JoeMiller](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/JoeMiller)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/annotating-specimens-and-other-data/2419/43 "2021-02-18T08:54:11Z")

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My dream research related annotation project is to measure all specimens and annotate them with leaf, stem and inflorescence character measurements. Methodological/technical progress is being made in many groups. In Acacia with over a 1000 species and there are currently 46,700 specimen images with most but not all species represented. Can a large scale morphometric study could recapitulate the taxonomy? With all of these specimens sequenced in a phylogeny too (and distributions) we could learn a lot about evolution. Is this a broad case study across tree of life that would would appeal to funders?

What is a high level use case that our broad community can support and use to support annotations infrastructure development?

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