Dried Insect Digitization Workshop
Dried Insect Digitization Workshop Wiki
This wiki contains materials supporting iDigBio's dried insects digitization workshop to be held at The Field Museum, April 24-25, 2013. Included are links to resources, outlines, and training materials related to digitizing dried insect collections.
Workshop Announcement
Digitization Resources Wiki Home
Workshop Agenda, Notes, Logistics
Presentations
- Introduction to iDigBio, Gil Nelson
- Designing Effective Workflows, Gil Nelson
- Georeferencing Tools and Practices
- Considerations for selecting a collecions management system, Joanna McCaffrey
- Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), Joanna McCaffrey
- Data Cleaning, Joanna McCaffrey
- Digitization at the NCSU Insect Museum and the Frost Entomological Museum, Andy Deans
- InvertNet, Chris Dietrich (PDF)
- Building Cooperative Digital Collections, Larry Schmidt
- Digitizing Dried Insects: Getting Started, Margaret Thayer and Petra Sierwald
- Powering up Workflows with Volunteers and Division of Labour, Paul Flemons
- Digitisation of Insect Collection at the British Museum of Natural History, Vladimir Blagoderov
- Label Image Automation, Nicola Ferrier and Mark Hereld
- Workflows: Perspectives from Peabody Entomology, Larry Gall
- Imaging Strategies, Tools, and Software, Roy Larimer (Visionary Digital)
Volunteers and Public Participation
Imaging
- Bertone, et. al: Results and insights from the NCSU Insect Museum GigaPan project
- Mantle, et. al: Whole-drawer imaging for digital management and curation of a large entomological collection
- South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Macrophotography
- South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Microphotography
- InvertNet: a new paradigm for digital access to invertebrate collections, Dietrich, et al., 2012
- DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections, Schmidt, et al., 2012
- Nomenclatural benchmarking: the roles of digital typification and telemicroscopy, Wheeler, et al., 2012
- Imaging Considerations, E-Type Initiative, Harvard
- Specific Image Requirements - Insects, E-Type Initiative, Harvard
- Roy Larimer's digital flow chart
- Roy Larimer, Important links to imaging, image processing, imaging software, Adobe Lightroom tutorials, and related resources
