Description:
The evolution of digitization workflow strategies at the New York Botanical Garden are outlined in this insightful and metrics-based paper. The authors highlight the point that the current method of using a semi-automated approach to create a skeleton (index) record of the specimen is providing much faster throughput (125 indexed records / hour) and essentially instantaneous availability of data and images to the public, researchers included. In conclusion, they note their limiting step is now manpower -- the technology is there to go even faster, but now they need more staff, more volunteers and public participation to speed the current process.
