Beth Mantle
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Dr. Beth Mantle is a leading voice in biodiversity informatics, best known for her visionary work on unifying the world’s natural history collections. Her most influential paper, “Biodiversity into your hands – A call for a virtual global natural history ‘metacollection’” (2013, 59 citations), laid the conceptual groundwork for a digital infrastructure that would aggregate specimen data from thousands of museums and herbaria into a single, accessible platform. This work directly addresses a critical bottleneck in taxonomy and conservation: the fragmentation of species information across disparate physical and digital repositories. By championing the idea of a “metacollection,” Mantle has helped catalyze global efforts to make biodiversity data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Her contributions empower researchers, students, and policymakers alike, transforming how we discover, identify, and protect species. Through her persistent advocacy for open science and digital collaboration, Mantle has become a key architect of the infrastructure that underpins modern biodiversity research, ensuring that the vast knowledge held in natural history collections is truly in everyone’s hands.
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