The societal benefits of digitizing natural history collections extends to global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collections could also result in a tenfold return. The Natural History Museum, London, has so far made over 4.9 million digitized specimens available freely online – over 28 billion records have been downloaded over 429,000 download events over the past six years.
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Source: Phys.org