People are essential to linking biodiversity data. - Quentin Groom; Anton Güntsch; Pieter Huybrechts; Nicole Kearney; Siobhan Leachman; Nicky Nicolson; Roderic D. M. Page; David P. Shorthouse; Anne E. Thessen; Elspeth Haston (Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2020)