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The FishNet2 network is a collaborative effort among fish collections around the world to share and distribute data on over 3.5 million specimen holdings.  Over the past few years a number of developments, such as spatial querying and taxonomic resolution, have been made to address the needs of acquiring baseline data from FishNet2. More recently, a collaborative georeferencing and data enhancement project has been funded by the United States National Science Foundation. Twelve collaborating institutions are working to expand and improve data quality within the FishNet network with a primary focus on geospatial referencing records lacking geographic coordinates (approximately 45% of the network holdings at the time of funding). This presentaion will present the workflow and preliminary findings of this project.  Furthermore we will describe an additional approach to georeferencing that expands upon existing technologies, integrates crowdsourcing approaches and provides educational and outreach opportunities for students and members of the general public.