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_Oh, an empty article!_ You can get started by **double clicking** this text block As with many fields, digitisation is having huge impact on the study of biodiversity. Many different museums and herbaria are engaged with turning physical, analogue specimens into digital objects, whether these are strings of As, Gs, Cs  and begin editing. You can also click Ts from DNA sequencing machines, or  the **Text** button below bits obtained from a digital camera. Libraries and commercial publishers are converting physical books and articles into images, which are then converted into strings of letters, subject  to add new block elements. Or you can **drag the limitations of optical character recognition (OCR). Indeed, there are striking parallels between the formation of DNA sequence databases in the twentieth century  and drop an image** right onto natural history museums in the nineteenth \cite{Strasser_2011} doi:\cite{Strasser_2008}. Viewed in  this text! way, both classical taxonomy and genomics are in the business of digitising life.