Drawer Imaging Group

International Whole-Drawer Digitization Interest Group

This page is devoted to resources and discussion for whole-drawer and bulk imaging of dried, pinned insect collection drawers and related bulk specimen containers. The interest group schedules regular discussion sessions via Adobe Connect for the purpose of sharing techniques, strategies, uses, improvements, and technology associated with producing a single image of an entire insect drawer. Resources, related documents, and discussion notes are stored below.

Interest Group Members

• Nicole Fisher (co-coordinator), Australian National Insect Collection
• Gil Nelson (co-coordinator), iDigBio
• Vladimir Blagoderov, Natural History Museum
• Matthew Buffington, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History
• Andy Deans, Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State
• Chris Dietrich, Illinois Natural History Survey
• Paul Flemons, Australian Museum
• Jeff Holland, Purdue
• Roy Larimer, Visionary Digital
• Joanna McCaffrey, iDigBio
• Ann Molineux, The University of Texas at Austin
• David Raila, University of Illinois, Computer Sciences
• Stefan Schmidt, Zoologische Staatssammlung München
• Bernhard Schurian, Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin
• Jennifer Thomas, University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute, Entomology
• Geoff Thompson, Queensland Museum
• Joost van Leusen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Luc Willemse Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Gretchen Wilbrandt, University of Minnesota
• Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue

Collaborative Notes and Interest Group Documents

• Collaborative Notes Document

Presentations (PDFs and links)

• Collections Digitization at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Joost van Leusen
• Drawer Registration Project, Naturalis Bioidiversity Center, Joost van Leusen
• Geologystreet, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Joost van Leusen
• MetaData Creator software, Vlad Blagoderov (Vimeo)
• InvertNet Robotic Whole-drawer imaging project, Chris Dietrich & David Raila
• Whole-drawer digitization in paleontology collections, Ann Molineux
• Whole-drawer digitisation at Australian National Insect Collection, Nicole Fisher
• Hasselblad H4D-200MS Drawer Imaging, Geoff Thompson, Queensland Museum
• Slide imaging at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Joost van Leusen
• DScan, Stefan Schmidt
  • PDF version
  • Power Point version
• Digitization efforts at the MfN (Bernhard Schurian)

Relevant Papers and Documents

• Results and insights from the NCSU Insect Museum GigaPan project, Bertone, et al.
• Whole-drawer imaging for digital management and curation of a large entomological collection, Mantle, et al.
• InvertNet: a new paradigm for digital access to invertebrate collections, Dietrich, et al.
• DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections, Schmidt, et al.
• van de entomologische collecties van Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leusen, et. al
• Digitization of the entomological collections of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leusen paper referenced above, translated to English
• Guide to digitising whole drawers of specimens by Bryan Kalms
• Building a Long-Bed Inverted Scanner for Digitizing Biological Collections, Jeff Holland
• A Marriage of Science and Contemporary Art-working with Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Geoff Thompson, Queensland Museum
• Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history 'metacollection', Michael Balke, Stefan Schmidt, et al
• Soup for crowds: A new source of data on insect richness, diversity and abundance, Paul Flemons and Beth Mantle
• Bycatches of ecological field studies: bothersome or valuable?, Sascha Buchholz, Martin Kreuels, Andreas Kronshage, Heinrich Terlutter, and Oliver-D. Finch

Relevant Links

• Drawer Digitization Project - Hymenoptera (Zoologische Staatssammlung in Munich)
• Drawer Digitisation Project - Hymenoptera (United States National Museum)
• Whole drawer scanning at the NCSU Insect Museum
• Some of the members at the second meeting
• Crowd Sourcing project for glass slides at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Google Chrome translates the site nicely)
• listserv IDIGBIOWDD-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU