Digitization Workflows

Digitization Workflows

Efficient and effective workflows are at the heart of successful biological and paleontological collections digitization. Much work has been done with developing workflows and protocols at the museum and collections level, but few of these workflows have been documented or made available to the larger collections community. iDigBio, through its Documentation pages, is establishing an online repository for sharing existing customized workflows from as many collection types and institutions as possible, an idea that stems largely from the Developing Robust Object-to-Image-to-Data (DROID) [1] workshop held May 30-31, 2012. We have assembled an initial set of workflows, including selected examples from the DROID workshop, as well as those developed by iDigBio staff. Here we offer the beginnings of the repository and encourage those in the community to both discuss the workflows via the forum links, and to contribute to this resource by adding new workflows and updating existing workflows. If you would like to submit a workflow for inclusion on this page, please contact iDigBio [2] for instructions. We are also assembling detailed modules of tasks to be performed at each stage of the workflow, accessible on our Workflow Modules and Tasks page [3].

Workflow	Contributor	Workflow Documentation	Link to Public Comments (Forums)
Domininant Digitization Workflows	iDigBio	Dominant Digitization Workflows Documentation [4]	Domininant Digitization Workflows Forum [5]
Field Notes-to-Data-to-Image	iDigBio	Field Notes-to-Data-to-Image Documentation [6]	Field Notes-to-Data-to-Image Forum [7]
Specimen-to-Data-to-Exemplar Image	iDigBio	Specimen-to-Data-to-Exemplar Image Documentation [8]	Specimen-to-Data-to-Exemplar Image Forum [9]
Object-to-Image-to-Data (1)	iDigBio	Object-to-Image-to-Data (1) Documentation [10]	Object-to-Image-to-Data (1) Forum [11]
Object-to-Image-to-Data (2)	iDigBio	Object-to-Image-to-Data (2) Documentation [12]	Object-to-Image-to-Data (2) Forum [13]
University of Vermont Herbarium	Dorothy Allard	University of Vermont Herbarium Documentation [14]	University of Vermont Herbarium Forum [15]
Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network	Paul Heinrich	Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network Documentation [16]	Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network Forum [17]
Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change	Ed Gilbert	Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change Documentation [18]	Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change Forum [19]
Botanical Research Institute of Texas	Jason Best	BRIT Documentation [20]	BRIT Forum [21]
University of Colorado MNH, Invert Paleontology	Talia Karim	University of Colorado MNH, Invert Paleontology Documentation [22]	University of Colorado MNH, Invert Paleontology Forum [23]
Texas Natural Science Center	Louis Zachos	Texas Natural Science Center Documentation [24]	Texas Natural Science Center Forum [25]
New York Botanical Gardens	Melissa Tulig	New York Botanical Gardens Documentation [26]	New York Botanical Gardens Forum [27]
SALIX	Les Landrum	SALIX Documentation [28]	SALIX Forum [29]
Global Plants Initiative U. of Vermont	Audrey Clark	GPI Pre-digitization Curation Workflow [30]