“…Natural history collections (NHCs) are undergoing a transformative role within science during the twenty-first century. More so than ever, the specimens they contain are being applied to "big data" interdisciplinary problems such as disease control, the global biodiversity and ecological crises, and mitigation and measurement of the effects of global warming (Suarez and Tsutsui, 2004;Winker, 2004;Baird, 2010;Pyke and Ehrlich, 2010;Bakker et al, 2020;Hedrick et al, 2020). New technological applications and methodologies, such as genomics, computational statistics, CT scanning, and machine learning are bringing renewed interest and application to historic collections, decades or even centuries after they have been established (Wandeler et al, 2007;Nelson and Ellis, 2018).…”