digitizing biological collections
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Digitizing Biological Collections. Five Task Clusters in Specimen Digitization Gil Nelson and Deb Paul Botany 2012 July 12, 2012. Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication – Florida State University. Digitizing Biological Collections. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Digitizing Biological Collections
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Five Task Clusters in Specimen Digitization
Gil Nelson and Deb PaulBotany 2012July 12, 2012
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28 Collections10 Museums
Spanning biological and paleontological collectionsInsects and other invertebrates, plants, birds, mammals
Wet, dry
Assessing Digitization Practices in Biological and Paleontological Collections
Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of biological collectionsGil Nelson, Deborah Paul, Gregory Riccardi, Austin R. Mast
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American Museum of Natural HistoryBotanical Research Institute of TexasFlorida Museum of Natural History
Florida State UniversityHarvard Herbarium
Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)New York Botanical Garden
Southeast Regional Network for Expertise and CollectionsSpecify Software Project (University of Kansas)
Symbiota Software Project (Arizona State University)Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
Tulane University Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Kansas Insect Museum
Valdosta State UniversityYale Peabody Museum
Acknowledgments
Pre-digitization Curation
or “Staging”
Image Capture
Data Capture
Image Processing
Image/Data Storage
Geo-referencing
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Personnel
Written Protocols
Biodiversity informatics Manager
Task Clusters(modules)
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Dominant Digitization Patterns Observed
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Iterative modules
A BBarcode Image Data
A B
A B
Personnel specialization & availability | Reduces bottlenecks | Technician preference
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Digitizing Biological Collections