Wet Collections Digitization Workshop

Wet Collections Digitization Workshop

• Workshop Announcement
  

Workshop Logistics

• Workshop Logistics Document
• Where to Eat in Lawrence
• Map of Lawrence

Workshop Agendas and Notes

• Workshop Agenda
• Workshop Recordings
• Tours and Demonstrations Schedule
• Collaborative notes page, 5 March
• Collaborative notes page, 6 March

Getting Started with Wet Collections Digitization

• Getting Started with Wet Collections Digitization (pdf of ppt by Gil Nelson)
• Getting Started at AMNH, Chris Johnson
• Emergence of SCAN, Sandy Brantley, U. New Mexico
• Interdisciplinary Exchange, Sally Bjork, U. Michigan

Imaging Wet Collections

• Imaging with InvertNet's Robot Chris Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey
• Digitizing 35mm Slides, Laura Halverson Monahan, U. Wisconsin, Madison
• Imaging Fishes (workshop presentation), Mark SabajPerez, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia/Drexel University
• Digital Imaging Tips (Mark Sabaj and Kyle Luckenbill)
• Guidelines & Suggestions for Image Capture of Catfishes and Type Specimens (Mark Sabaj)
• Image Manipulation Using Adobe Photoshop (version 7) (Luckenbill and Sabaj)
• PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF FISHES OF THE GUIANA SHIELD (text only)
• PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF FISHES OF THE GUIANA SHIELD (with images; LARGE pdf, ~43MB)
• Museum of Comparative Zoology Ichthyology Department Imaging Equipment Specifications
• Photo EBox Imaging Station

Imaging Equipment

• Information about the Quadra-Pod used in KU's imaging lab
• Info about Quadra-Pod Elite

Image Processing

• Image Processing for Wet Collections, Kyle Luckenbill
• Photoshop CS6 Tutorila, Kyle Luckenbill

Georeferencing

• Georeferencing Natural History Collections, Nelson Rios, Tulane

Identifiers, Databases, and Sharing Data

• iDigBio's Database, Portals, Aggregators, and Tools Review Page
• It's About Data: Identifiers, Darwin Core, Sharing Data, Choosing a Database, Digitization Maturity (pptx by iDigBio's Deborah Paul, Greg Riccardi, Joanna McCaffrey)
  • It's About Data, Deb Paul, pdf version
• Data Cleaning, Validation and Enhancement, Deborah Paul, iDigBio
  • Use this power point and the notes in it to experiment with Open Refine - a powerful tool for cleaning up data, validating values and enhancing existing data.
  • Link to the OpenRefine.org website for data cleaning tools
  • Open Refine Google+ Community for users of Open Refine. Started by a participant of this Wet Collections Workshop. Join us!
• Specify, Andy Bentley, U. Kansas
• Symbiota, FilteredPush, and Other Tools, Ed Gilbert, Arizona State

Pre-digitization Curation

• Pre-digitization Curation for Fluid Collections, Rob Robbins, Florida Museum of Natural History

Workflows

• Introduction to Digitization Workflows for Wet Collections (pdf of ppt by Gil Nelson)
• PDF of Brian Sidlauskas' presentation on digitizing textual data from the historic card catalog at the Oregon State Ichthyology Collection, Brian Sidlauskas
• Workflow for entering textual data from the historic card catalog at the Oregon State Ichthyology Collection into Specify 6, including appendices on creating retroactive field numbers and standardizing drainage designations in Oregon, Brian Sidlauskas
• Go With the Flow, Sally Bjork, U. Michigan
• Digitizing Field Books and Collecting Events, Andrew Short, U. Kansas
• Fishes of Texas Project: Specimen Imaging, Adam Cohen