[Rockhounds] Reexcavating Dark Data From Museum Fossil Collections

[Paul]

We’re Hardly Using Any of Our Fossils
The vast majority are languishing in
museum storage. Is it time to dig them
up all over again? By Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura,  September 26, 2018
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-online-database

The paper si:

Marshall, C.R., Finnegan, S., Clites, E.C., Holroyd,
P.A., Bonuso, N., Cortez, C., Davis, E., Dietl, G.P.,
Druckenmiller, P.S., Eng, R.C. and Garcia, C., 2018.
Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil
collections as palaeontology undergoes a second
digital revolution. Biology letters, 14(9), p.20180431
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/9/20180431

Yours,

Paul H.