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Sharing: lessons from natural history's success story

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The success of data sharing among natural-history collections may alleviate the fears about capacity and cooperation expressed in your special issue (Nature 461, 145; 2009, Nature 461, 160–163; 2009 and Nature 461, 168–173; 2009). Our social and information-technology (IT) infrastructure provides open access to millions of records from hundreds of repositories, thanks to broad participation and funding from the US National Science Foundation. However, this success story also exposes some new challenges.

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  1. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, 80309, Colorado, USA

    Robert Guralnick

  2. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA

    Heather Constable, John Wieczorek & Craig Moritz

  3. Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045, Kansas, USA

    A. Townsend Peterson

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