Workflows Herbarium Digitization

Digitizing the Past and Present for the Future
Quick Links for Workflows and Herbarium Digitization Workshop
Workflows and Herbarium Digitization Workshop Agenda
Workflows and Herbarium Digitization Workshop Biblio Entries
Workflows and Herbarium Digitization Workshop Report

Agenda and Logistics

• Workshop Agenda
• Logistics document
• Potential working groups
• Google map from hotel to workshop venue
• VSU campus map showing workshop venue
• Potential considerations
• Notes from afternoon wrap up, 27 Jan
• Potential groupings
• Priorities
• Start of paper
• Outline
• Citations, references, links
  • How to clean a flatbed scanner

iDigBio Workflows

• Workflow Modules and Task Lists
• Collections_Digitization_Workflows

Workflow Diagrams

• FN2D2I
• O2D2EI
• O2I2D(1)
• O2I2D(2)
• Another type of workflow diagram

Contributed Workflows

• iDigBio Workflows
  • iDigBio Flat Sheets and Packets workflows (plus others)
    • Pre-digitization Curation
    • Imaging Station Setup-Camera
    • Imaging Station Setup-Scanner
    • Imaging
    • Image Processing
    • Data Capture
• Working Workflow Templates
  • Selecting an Imaging Station
  • Proactive Digitization
  • Imaging Station Set-Up Conveyer
  • Imaging Station Set-up Lightbox
  • Organizing and Implementing a Public Participation Imaging Blitz
  • Organizing and Implementing a Public Participation Transcription Blitz
  • Georeferencing
  • Aggregating Data to iDigBio
  • Responding to Post-digitization Data Requests
  • Post-digitization task list
  • Image archiving
  • Selecting a database
• Lichens and Bryophytes
  • LBCCWorkflows (Julianne Smith)
  • Digitization workflow (Julianne Smith)
• Valdosta State (Richard Carter)
  • VSC data entry rules
  • General instructions for handling herbarium specimens
  • VSC herbarium housekeeping
  • VSC imaging station setup
  • VSC imaging with FNIntercept
  • VSC predigitization curation
  • VSC Georeferencing protocol

Discussion Notes

• Potential considerations
• Notes from afternoon wrap up, 27 Jan

Workflows from Other Sources

• Herbarium Pacificum specimen flow(Barbara Kennedy)
• Herbarium Pacificum Barcoding Procedures & Information (Varnelle Magoon)
• http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/generic-image-digitisation-workflow/
• http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/quality-assurance-and-digitisation-projects
• http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/budgeting-for-a-digitisation-project
• BarDecodeFiler: software to rename images to barcode value (used by NYBG)
• PowerShell Script to rename images based on renamed JPEG and BardecodeFiler output (NYBG)
• FSU georef protocol
• FSU georef protocol 2

Presentations

• Workshop Overview (Gil Nelson)
• Using digital images and data in botanical research (Pam Soltis)
• Talks by Zack Murrell
• Flat Sheets and Packets Workflow Working Group (Gil Nelson)
• NYBG workflows (Kim Watson)
• Pacific NW herbarium consortium workflows
• Consortium of California Herbaria workflows (Mare Nazaire)
• Mississippi grandiFLORA workflows (Lisa Wallace)
• Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project (Austin Mast)
• New England vascular plants Tcn workflows (Patrick Sweeney)
• Macroalgae TCN workflows (Chris Neefus)
• Great Lakes Consortium workflows(Rich Rabeler)
• Digitization workflow (Julianne Smith)
• Valdosta State workflows (Richard Carter)
• Workflows at University of North Carolina (Carol Ann McCormick)
• Louisiana Cyberflora workflows (Tom Sasak)
• Symbiota workflows (Ed Gilbert)
• Georeferencing workflows (Blaine Marchant)
• Crowd-sourcing, volunteers, blitzes (Austin Mast)
• Maximizing and sources of student labor (Emily Gillespie)

Recordings

• 8:30am-10:15am
• 10:30am-12:30pm