Progress in Digitization
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This wiki supports the SPNHC 2014 Symposium: Update on Initiatives and Progress in Digitization of Natural History Collections, Millennium Centre Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales, June 26th.
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SPNHC 2014 Progress in Digitization Symposium Agenda and Logistics
Collaborative Notes Documents
- [link to Collaborative Notes document]
Workshop Recordings
Thursday June 26, 2014
- [link Day1 9am-1020am] (Cardiff time)
- [link Day1 10:50am - 12:00 noon]
- [link Day1 1:30pm - 3:00pm]
- [link Day1 4:00pm - 5:30pm]
Friday June 2th, 2014
- [link Day2 time?] Collaboration Meeting - All Invited.
PowerPoints and Presentations
Thursday, 26 June 2014
- Developing and Testing Tools and Processes for Creating a Swedish Digital Natural History Collection, e-BioColl.se (Per Ericson, Fredrik Ronquist, Anders Telenius, Stefan Daume,Kevin Holston, and Karin Karlsson)
- keywords:
- link to pdf
- From massive digitisation of Paris Herbarium to a nation-wide program (Simon Chagnoux, Marc Pignal)
- Barcodes, conveyor belts and laser scanners: putting the contents of the Geological Museum (South Kensington, 1935 - 1985) on the web (Mike Howe)
- Automated mass-digitization line for individual insect specimens (Riitta Tegelberg, Janne Karppinen, Tero Mononen, Mira Sääskilahti, Hannu Saarenmaa)
- Image segmentation in high throughput digitisation workflows (Vladimir Blagoderov,Laurence Livermore, Ben Price, Stéfan van der Walt, Pieter Holtzhausen, Vince Smith)
- Workflows in the cooperative IMLS Silurian Digitization project between Milwaukee Public Museum and The Field Museum (Patricia Coorough Burke, A. Caywood, M. James, E. Malueg, D. Miller)
- Designing a Workflow to Help with Error Detection in a Paleontology (IMLS Silurian Reef) Digitization Project (Paul S. Mayer, L. Connolly, N. Karpus, A. P. Layng)
- Making molehills out of mountains: crowdsourcing digital access to natural history collections (Laurence Livermore, Vince Smith, John Tweddle)
- Exploitation of digital collection data at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Saskia Jancke, Dirk Striebing, Frieder Mayer)
- ZooSphere - A tool for automated spheric image capturing and interactive 3D visualization of biological collection objects (Alexander S. Kroupa, Martin Pluta, Bernhard Schurian, Falko Glöckler)
- Using optical character recognition (OCR) output in digitization: see your data before it's in the database and after (Deborah L Paul, Andrea Matsunaga, Miao Chen, Jason Best, Sylvia Orli, Elspeth M Haston)
- keywords: optical character recognition, machine learning, natural language processing, data visualization, confidence scores
- link to pdf
- Incorporating OCR into a digitisation and curation workflow (Elspeth Haston, Robyn Drinkwater, Robert Cubey)
- The virtually browseable collection: connecting GIS to whole drawer imaging (Ann Molineux, Robert W. Burroughs, Faye Geigerman)
- Georeferencing Fish Collections from the FishNet Network: An Update of Progress and Evaluation of Collaborative Georeferencing Techniques (Nelson E. Rios, Henry L. Bart, Michael H. Doosey)
- iDigBio's Biospex System for Engaging the Public in Biodiversity Research Specimen Digitization (Elizabeth Ellwood, Austin Mast, Greg Riccardi, Robert Bruhn, Jeremy Spinks)
- Integrating High Throughput Digitization with Distributed Software: Supporting Data Flows in the New England Vascular Plant Network with FilteredPush Technologies (Paul J. Morris, James Hanken,Maureen Kelly, David B. Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher James A. Macklin, Chuck McCallum, Robert A. Morris, Tianhong Song, Patrick Sweeney)
- Arctos: A Collaborative, Cost-Efficient Solution for Managing and Publishing Biodiversity Data in Collections of all Sizes (Carla Cicero, Link Olson, Joseph A. Cook, Michelle S. Koo, Dusty L. McDonald, Gordon Jarrell)
- From Museum Specimen Database to Ecological Statement (Christine A. Johnson, Richard K. Rabeler, Charles Bartlett)