Table 1.
Digitization rates by task and student. All calculations are in average specimens per hour.
| Task/Individual | No. of recorded work intervals | Specimens/h | SE |
| Nomenclatural verification (Average for all students)a | 150 | ||
| Imaging (Average for all students working alone) | 57 | 145 | 6.3 |
| Imaging (Average for students working in pairs) | 8 | 172 | 16.7 |
| Databasing: | |||
| Undergraduate student 1 | 73 | 26 | 3.2 |
| Undergraduate student 2 | 90 | 27 | 2.9 |
| Undergraduate student 3 | 118 | 21 | 2.0 |
| Undergraduate student 4 | 61 | 26 | 3.3 |
| Undergraduate student 5 | 118 | 26 | 2.4 |
| Undergraduate student average | 460 | 25 | 1.2 |
| Master’s student | 699 | 47 | 1.8 |
| Uploadinga | 331 |
a
For nomenclatural verification and uploading, we only recorded total time and number of specimens, so we calculated an overall mean without a standard error (SE).