A plea for digital reference collections and other science‐based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar

1Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England, 3Natural History Museum, London, England, 4Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 6Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria, San Pedro, Costa Rica, 7Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, 8Departamento de Morfologia e Fisiologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, 9Natural History Museum, Entomology Section, Venice, Italy and 10University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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