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

Natural History Collections Imaging Survey Report. Current imaging practices...

Survey that aimed to find out the existing guidelines and recommendations for imaging natural history collections that have been adopted and used by the community.

imaging survey

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-03-17
Resource Date Published: 2023-09-26

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Georeferencing Best Practices

Provides guidelines to best practices for georeferencing biological occurrence data.

best practices

Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-05-28
Resource Date Published: 2023-07-12

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Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of...

This publication provides a base for thinking about a digitization project to be categorized into groups tasks which are referred as task clusters.

digitization workflow

Metadata Creation Date: 2025-03-06
Resource Date Published: 2012-07-20

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Use of globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) to link herbarium specimen...

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GUID globally unique identifier

Metadata Creation Date: 2025-03-07
Resource Date Published: 2018-03-07

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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

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

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

Hespi: a pipeline for automatically detecting information from herbarium...

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Language: eng
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-09-02
Resource Date Published: 2025-07-17

Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide

A practical guide that demonstrates the usage of georeferencing best practices applied to different scenarios or types of locality description one might encounter when in the...

georeferencing

Language: engspa
Metadata Creation Date: 2025-05-29
Resource Modified Date: 2022-02-25

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