All across the globe, many Natural History Collections (NHC) are digitizing their holdings, seeking funding to digitize, or trying to figure out how they can get started. Logically, with the development of these digital resources, researchers, providers, and users are interested in any specimen data gaps noticed and specimen data use and re-use cases. No matter where you are on this continuum at your institution, keeping up-to-date on what is going on and what is possible is no easy task. In this session, our aim is to provide a broad and deep coverage of current worldwide NHC digitization efforts.https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Progress_in_Digitization#PowerPoints_and_Presentations
Questions welcome. Please direct them to: Deb Paul (dpaul@fsu.edu)Elspeth Haston (E.Haston@rbge.ac.uk)Libby Ellwood (ellwoodlibby@gmail.com)Register here to participate remotely:
This wiki supports the SPNHC 2014 Symposium: Update on Initiatives and
Progress in Digitization of Natural History Collections, Millennium Centre
Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales, June 26th.
SPNHC
2014 Progress in Digitization Symposium Agenda and Logistics
Collaborative
Notes Documents
- [link to Collaborative Notes document]
Workshop
Recordings
Thursday June 26, 2014
- [link Day1 9am-10:20am] (Cardiff time)
- [link Day1 10:50am - 12:00 noon]
- [link Day1 1:30pm - 3:00pm]
- [link Day1 4:00pm - 5:30pm]
Friday June 2th, 2014
- [link Day2 time?] Collaboration Meeting - All Invited.
PowerPoints and
Presentations
Thursday, 26 June 2014
- Developing and Testing Tools and Processes for Creating a Swedish Digital
Natural History Collection, e-BioColl.se (Per Ericson, Fredrik Ronquist,
Anders Telenius, Stefan Daume,Kevin Holston, and Karin Karlsson)
- keywords: automation, optical character recognition, citizen science,
e-science, e-BioColl.se
- link to pdf
- From massive digitisation of Paris Herbarium to a nation-wide program
(Simon Chagnoux, Marc Pignal)
- keywords: optical character recognition, crowdsourcing, e-ReColNat,
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, herbarium
- Barcodes, conveyor belts and laser scanners: putting the contents of the
Geological Museum (South Kensington, 1935 - 1985) on the web (Mike
Howe, Bob McIntosh, Simon Harris, Michela Contessi & Graham Tulloch
(National Geological Repository, British Geological Survey))
- keywords: British Geological Survey, fossils, 3D models, conveyor belt,
automation
- Automated mass-digitization line for individual insect specimens
(Riitta Tegelberg, Janne Karppinen, Tero Mononen, Mira Sääskilahti,
Hannu Saarenmaa)
- keywords: Finnish Museum of Natural History, digitarium, insects,
conveyor belt, automation
- Image segmentation in high throughput digitisation workflows (Vladimir
Blagoderov,Laurence Livermore, Ben Price, Stéfan van der Walt, Pieter
Holtzhausen, Vince Smith)
- keywords: Natural History Museum, automation, insects, microscope
slides, synchronization
- Workflows in the cooperative IMLS Silurian Digitization project between
Milwaukee Public Museum and The Field Museum (Patricia Coorough Burke,
A. Caywood, M. James, E. Malueg, D. Miller)
- keywords: Milwaukee Public Museum, Field Museum, Silurian, taxonomy,
fossils, workflow
- Designing a Workflow to Help with Error Detection in a Paleontology (IMLS
Silurian Reef) Digitization Project (Paul S. Mayer, L. Connolly, N.
Karpus, A. P. Layng)
- keywords: Field Museum, fossils, workflow, interns, error checking
- Making molehills out of mountains: crowdsourcing digital access to natural
history collections (Laurence Livermore, Vince Smith, John Tweddle)
- keywords: Natural History Museum, crowdsourcing, transcription, access
- Exploitation of digital collection data at the Museum für Naturkunde
Berlin (Saskia Jancke, Dirk Striebing, Frieder Mayer)
- keywords: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, database management, Specify,
standardization
- ZooSphere - A tool for automated spheric image capturing and interactive
3D visualization of biological collection objects (Alexander S. Kroupa,
Martin Pluta, Bernhard Schurian, Falko Glöckler)
- keywords: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, automation, imaging, 3D,
insects, ZooSphere
- Using optical character recognition (OCR) output in digitization: see your
data before it's in the database and after (Deborah L Paul, Andrea
Matsunaga, Miao Chen, Jason Best, Sylvia Orli, Elspeth M Haston)
- keywords: optical character recognition, machine learning, natural
language processing, data visualization, confidence scores
- link to pdf
- Incorporating OCR into a digitisation and curation workflow (Elspeth
Haston, Robyn Drinkwater, Robert Cubey)
- keywords:
- The virtually browseable collection: connecting GIS to whole drawer
imaging (Ann Molineux, Robert W. Burroughs, Faye Geigerman)
- keywords: accessibility, GIS map, Specify, whole drawer imaging,
education
- Georeferencing Fish Collections from the FishNet Network: An Update of
Progress and Evaluation of Collaborative Georeferencing Techniques (Nelson
E. Rios, Henry L. Bart, Michael H. Doosey)
- keywords: FishNet, georeference, GEOLocate, Collaborative Georeferencing
Client (CoGe)
- iDigBio's Biospex System for Engaging the Public in Biodiversity Research
Specimen Digitization (Elizabeth Ellwood, Austin Mast, Greg Riccardi,
Robert Bruhn, Jeremy Spinks)
- keywords: iDigBio, citizen science, digitization management, Biospex
- Integrating High Throughput Digitization with Distributed Software:
Supporting Data Flows in the New England Vascular Plant Network with
FilteredPush Technologies (Paul J. Morris, James Hanken,Maureen Kelly,
David B. Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher James A. Macklin, Chuck McCallum, Robert A.
Morris, Tianhong Song, Patrick Sweeney)
- keywords: FilteredPush, DarwinCore, Symbiota, Specify, quality control
- Using Complementarity to Improve Plant Specimen Digitization (Rusty
Russell, Elspeth Haston & Nicola Nicolson)
- keywords: botanical specimens, duplication, efficiency, herbaria,
exsiccatae
- Seaweed Collections Online: Mobilising data from national and regional
museums (Jo Wilbraham, Juliet Brodie)
- keywords: Britain, seaweed, Scratchpad, Data Deficient, species
distributions
- From Museum Specimen Database to Ecological Statement (Christine A.
Johnson, Richard K. Rabeler, Charles Bartlett)
- keywords: museum specimen database, data quality, collector bias,
pseudoreplication, data analyses, ecological statement