Dr Elspeth Haston is the Deputy Herbarium Curator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She studied systematic botany at Reading University, after an earlier career in horticulture. Following a postdoc at RBGE studying floral development in Gesneriaceae, she joined the herbarium curation team in 2006. Her main interests are in curation systems and in developing large scale digitisation processes and workflows. She is the co-chair of the Digitisation Working Group of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), a member of the US-based iDigBio AugmentOCR Working Group and is on the Steering Group of the Scottish Digitisation Working Group