Digitization-Resource - Digitization Knowledge

This article preprint describes a method of enabling data capture from labels in pinned specimens without removing the labels from the pin. This describes a setup with multiple...

angled images image post-processing

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-10-02
Resource Date Created: 2018-11-05

Ahead of the curve: three approaches to mass digitisation of vials with a...

This article proposes a set of efficient methods for digitizing liquid-preserved specimens stored in jars and vials. In one of the setups, they modify existing methods of...

automation image post-processing spirit collections wet specimens

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-10-02
Resource Date Published: 2020-04-27

A workflow and protocol describing the field to digitization process for new...

This article provides a workflow and protocols to deal with collections of fossil leaf specimens. The workflow integrates digitization with the processes related to data...

data collection digitization workflow

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-10-02
Resource Date Published: 2018-03-07

A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides

Introduces a workflow created by the Natural History Museum at London (NHM) to digitize their slide collections via semi-automated processes to allow high-throughput...

automation barcodes mass digitization microscope slides

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-10-02
Resource Date Published: 2019-03-01

Handbook on natural history collections management: a collaborative Swiss perspective

Focuses on standards for the management of specimens and objects in biodiversity-focused collections. It includes a chapter that deals directly with digital data. Touching on...

collection... data storage data vocabularies identifiers persistent identifiers

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-24
Resource Date Published: 2021-02-28

Georeferencing the Natural History Museum's Chinese type collection: of...

This article showcases a workflow for georeferencing used by and herbarium to georeference type specimens. It includes challenges from old specimens with handwritten labels and...

digitization workflow georeferencing showcase

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-26
Resource Date Published: 2020-05-05

Darwin Core Hour Series

This page provides access to materials of a series of webinars that revolve around controlled vocabularies and data quality when digitizing biodiversity specimens. It goes from...

controlled vocabularies data quality

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-26
Resource Modified Date: 2021-10-29

SPNCH - Persistent Identifiers

This article provides an overview of what persistent identifiers are and which types of identifiers are commonly found in biodiversity-focused collections.

persistent identifiers

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-25
Resource Date Published: 2025-03-26

Metamorfoze Preservation Imaging Guidelines - Image Quality

This document provides guidelines for expectations of digital image quality at various levels of strictness. It provides information of requirements for file formats, color...

quality assurance quality control

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-25
Resource Date Published: 2025-04-01

Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation

This article provide guidance on how to prioritize efforts when starting a new digitization project considering four categories of prioritization criteria: relevance, data...

data quality prioritization project management

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-25
Resource Date Published: 2023-11-02

Valorization of Historical Natural History Collections Through Digitization:...

This article shares the experience and the digitization workflow followed by the Algarium Vatova-Schiffner.

digitization workflow

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-24
Resource Date Published: 2024-10-17

Ten lessons learned from the mass digitisation of a herbarium collection

Article describing the lessons learned by the Meise Botanic Garden from a six-year project of digitization of about 3 million specimens. This article include aspects related to...

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-24
Resource Date Published: 2024-07-02

Norfolk RecordOffice - Digitisation

Series of pages that serves as overview of relevant aspects of the digitization process for archival, including creating a digitization plan, storage and back up of files,...

data management plan data permissions data quality data storage

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-24

Digital Imaging for the Small Organization

This is a guide tailored for small institutions that are in the digitization process and gives recommendations in terms of topics related to digital imaging, including image...

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-23
Resource Date Published: 2016-01-01

Digitization of natural history collections: A guideline and nationwide...

This publication is the result of a workshop in Malaysia on how to plan and proceed with a digitization project, considering low-cost options and how to tackle the lack of...

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-17
Resource Date Published: 2023-06-14

Get Started with OpenRefine: Explore, Clean, and Transform your Data!

Workshop that helps to get familiar with Open Refine. It serves as an introduction to OpenRefine and showcases scenarios of data cleaning when working with messy data and data...

OpenRefine data cleaning data transformation messy data tidy data

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-05

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