Digitization

Workshop and Symposium at Botany 2012

It is our pleasure to announce the Specimen Digitization Tools and Practices Workshop at the Botany 2012 Conference. The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections. The workshop is organized by iDigBio, the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections. It will be held from 8:00AM – 5:00PM on Thursday, July 12, the day after the conference at the conference facility. A dinner for workshop participants will follow.

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AMNH and NYBG (Digitization Workflow)

Studying Digitization and Databasing Workflows

Who & What & Why:
iDigBio staff members, Gil Nelson and Deborah Paul are excited about upcoming visits to a series of natural history museums with current digitization projects in process. To illuminate what imaging and data-basing techniques and strategies are currently in use and might represent a possible better practice, they are collecting data about and videos of data-basing in progress.

Where & When:
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)

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Harvard Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology (Digitization Workflow)

Studying Digitization and Databasing Workflows

Who & What & Why:
iDigBio staff members, Gil Nelson and Deborah Paul are excited about upcoming visits to a series of natural history museums with current digitization projects in process. To illuminate what imaging and data-basing techniques and strategies are currently in use and might represent a possible better practice, they are collecting data about and videos of data-basing in progress.

Where & When:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (Digitization Workflow)

Studying Digitization and Databasing Workflows

Who & What & Why:
iDigBio staff members, Gil Nelson and Deborah Paul are excited about upcoming visits to a series of natural history museums with current digitization projects in process. To illuminate what imaging and data-basing techniques and strategies are currently in use and might represent a possible better practice, they are collecting data about and videos of data-basing in progress.

Where & When:
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Mon - Tue January 16th - 17th

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Digitizing Biological Collections: Global Issues and Decision Points

Imaging and databasing a biological collection seems like a straightforward task: procure the specimens, extract the data, take the image, and serve the image and data on the internet. However, in most cases there are numerous preliminary global issues and decision points to be resolved before actual imaging and data extraction can begin.

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