IDigBio Media Appliance

Purpose

Facilitate ingestion of media files (images) into iDigBio from your local file system in a reliable manner and meeting the minimum iDigBio requirements for media. For an overview of the appliance, look at the CYWG meeting presentation slides.

This document elaborates on use cases for the image ingestion appliance; community input is welcome to help refine and expand the list of use cases.

 

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Get the image ingestion appliance from:

• For Windows
• For Mac
• For Linux

What do I need to provide?

The appliance requires the following:

1. An internet browser (Chrome, Firefox and Sarafi are supported)
2. An iDigBio account with corresponding UUID and assigned API key
3. A set of image files residing on your local disk that are compliant with the iDigBio Policy on Acceptable Formats for iDigBio-hosted Images
4. A creative commons license that you would like to apply to all the images. If you need guidance on the selection, look at iDigBio Intellectual License Property Policy.
5. A comma-separated file (CSV) containing at least the full path to the location of each image and the GUID you would like to assign to the media metadata.

What are the fields in the input CSV?

Column Name	Required	Description	Example
idigbio:MediaGUID	Y	GUID for a digital multimedia object.	"urn:uuid:3c1dc496-e5c6-4849-b616-cada2896190d", "ids.amnh.org/AMNH_PBI 00010147 lateral.jpg"
idigbio:OriginalFileName	Y	Entire path+filename as stored on the appliance user local disk.	"C:/images/AMNH_PBI/AMNH_PBI 00010147 lateral.jpg", "\home\Plants\VSC0043330.jpg"
idigbio:CollectionObjectGUID	N	Relates the media record identified by idigbio:MediaGUID to a specimen (CollectionObject concept).	"http://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/fish/INHS106002", "urn:uuid:3c1dc496-e5c6-4849-b616-cada2896190d"
idigbio:Title	N	Concise title, name, or brief descriptive label of individual resource. This field should include the complete title with all the subtitles, if any.	"Ilex glabra from FSU"
idigbio:Description	N	Description of the individual resource, containing the Who, What, When, Where and Why as free-form text.	"Scanned herbarium sheet with specimen collected West of Plant City 4 miles from Mango Jct., on Hwy 92."
idigbio:LanguageCode	N	Code for the language used in the title and description. Must be in ISO 639-1 format.	"en", "es", "pt"
idigbio:DigitizationDevice	N	Free form text describing the device or devices used to create the resource.	"Canon Supershot 2000","Makroscan Scanner 2000","Zeiss Axioscope with Camera IIIu","SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)"
idigbio:NominalPixelResolution	N	The real size of the pixel depicted in the image (e.g., microscopy). Include a number and a unit.	"128µm"
idigbio:Magnification	N	Magnification applied when capturing the image of an object.	"4x", "100x"
idigbio:OcrOutput	N	Output of the process of applying OCR to the multimedia object.	"\tThe New York Botanical Garden\n\tLICHENS of NEW YORK STATE, U.S.A.\n\n Polycoccum minutulum Kocourkov� & F. Berger\n\n on Trapelia placodioides Coppins & P. James\n\nRockland County: Harriman State Park, along\n Woodtown Road West near dam at S end of Lake\n Sebago along Seven Lakes Drive, 41�11'N, 74�08'W,\n ca. 240 m; mixed hardwood-hemlock forest with\n granitic erratics.\n\n19 April 1998\n\nRichard C. Harris 42164\tNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN\n\n\t\t\t\t\t01075759\n"
idigbio:OcrTechnology	N	Free form text describing the software utilized for OCR as well as any additional technique (cropping, color alteration applied, controlled vocabulary).	"Tesseract version 3.01 on Windows, latin character set"
idigbio:InformationWithheld	N	Indication that additional information exists and that it has not been shared in the given record due to sensitive nature. It does not contain the withheld information itself. Should include information on how to obtain the withheld information by other means (e.g., a contact).	"location information not given for endangered species, contact my@email", "collector identities withheld, contact xyz", "ask about tissue samples contacting my@email"

Examples of the input CSV files: Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

Go back to CYWG.