Notes from Nature (http://www.notesfromnature.org; NFN) is a citizen science tool focused on public engagement and label transcription of natural history specimens. The project was developed collaboratively by biodiversity scientists, curators, and experts in citizen science, within the well-established Zooniverse platform. This project currently brings together digital images representing biodiversity records that include ledger books (birds), herbarium sheets (plants), specimen labels (fungi) and pinned specimens (insects) from multiple projects and museum collections. Volunteer citizen scientists transcribe textual data contained in the specimen images. Since its launch in 2013, NFN has amassed over 1.1 million transcriptions from over 7,800 registered volunteers worldwide. While successful, NFN has been difficult to scale up for broadest community use, both for natural history collections providers and citizen scientists. This talk focuses on the next steps to overcome these current limitations. We discuss forthcoming improvements for: 1) interoperability, flexibility and data quality for providers; 2) transcription quality driven by experiments to determine the most efficient methods; 3) volunteer experience such as motivation, expeditions, bringing in external content. A key aspect of these improvements will involve interoperability with BioSpex (http://www.biospex.org/), which will make expedition creation, advertisement and output ingestion scalable. We discuss engagement efforts and interoperability with other biodiversity informatics tools such as the Encyclopedia of Life and Map of Life. Such improvements help NFN take its place as a critical component of an ecosystem of tools needed to unlock the vast legacy biodiversity data for broad public good. Lastly, we will share lessons learned and effective approaches to help those interested in starting new citizen science projects.