**List of standards/protocols/guidelines included in the survey.** ALA Guidance: Digitisation: A strategic approach for natural history collections [https://www.ala.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Digitisation-guide-120223.pdf][1] Digital Preservation Coalition [https://www.dpconline.org/handbook][2] FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Inititiative [https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html][3] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.1: Quality Management Methodologies for Digitization Operations [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469521][4] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.2: State of the art and perspectives on mass imaging of microscopic and other slides [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3364481][5] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.3: State of the art and perspectives on mass imaging of skins and other vertebrate material [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3364385][6] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.4: State of the art and perspectives on mass imaging of liquid samples [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469547][7] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.5: State of the art and perspectives on mass imaging of pinned insects [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3520667][8] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.6: Best practice guidelines for imaging of herbarium specimens [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524263][9] ICEDIG Deliverable 3.7: Rapid 3D capture methods in biological collections and related fields [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469531][10] iDigBio Recommendations for the Acquisition, Processing, and Archiving of Digital Media [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Recommendations_for_the_Acquisition,_Processing,_and_Archiving_of_Digital_Media][11] iDigBio DROID 1 (Flat Sheets and Packets) [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID1)][12] iDigBio DROID 2 (Pinned Specimens in Trays and Drawers) [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID2)][13] iDigBio DROID 3 (Things in Spirits) [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID3)][14] iDigBio DROID 4 (3D objects in Trays) [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID4)][15] NYBG Herbarium Specimen Imaging: Standards and Suggestions [http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/docs/Watson_iDigBio-Botany-2014-Workshop.pdf][16] JSTOR Global Plants guidelines [http://www.snsb.info/SNSBInfoOpenWiki/attach/Attachments/JSTOR-Plants-Handbook.pdf][17] UPDIG (Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines [http://www.updig.org/index.html][18] [1]: https://www.ala.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Digitisation-guide-120223.pdf [2]: https://www.dpconline.org/handbook [3]: https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html [4]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469521 [5]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.336448 [6]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3364385 [7]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469547 [8]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3520667 [9]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3524263 [10]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469531 [11]: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Recommendations_for_the_Acquisition,_Processing,_and_Archiving_of_Digital_Media [12]: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID1) [13]: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_(DROID2) [14]: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_%28DROID3%29 [15]: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_Robust_Object_to_Image_to_Data_%28DROID4%29 [16]: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/docs/Watson_iDigBio-Botany-2014-Workshop.pdf [17]: http://www.snsb.info/SNSBInfoOpenWiki/attach/Attachments/JSTOR-Plants-Handbook.pdf [18]: http://www.updig.org/index.html