Collections Digitization Workflows

This Wiki includes links to preparation-specific workflows and protocols for digitizing biodiversity and paleontology collections. The page serves as a community collaboration. Contributions of existing workflows and protocols are encouraged, whether such workflows were developed by the contributor or discovered while searching the internet. Create a free iDigBio account to upload and link your own contributions, or e-mail contributions (links or documents) to Molly Phillips (mphillips@flmnh.ufl.edu) or Gil Nelson (gnelson@bio.fsu.edu) for uploading and linking. An initial set of stubs is provided. Please expand as needed.

Herbarium Digitization Workflows and Protocols

• Florida State University Herbarium Imaging Protocol
• Valdosta State University Herbarium (VSC) Vascular Plant Imaging Protocol
• Valdosta State Herbarium (VSC) Bryophyte Packet Imaging Protocol
• Valdosta Herbarium image processing with Nikon Dust Off process included
• Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria imaging wokflows
• Imaging Plants, E-Type Initiative, Harvard
• Bryophyte/Lichen Data and Image Capture Workflows (LBCC Thematic Collections Network)
• STAR Herbarium Digitization Workflow (Kari Harris, Arkansas State University)

Invertebrate Digitization Workflows and Protocols

• A Guide to Digitizing Insect Collections (MCZ Entomology Type Image Project)
• South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Macrophotography
• South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Microphotography
• Preparing Insect Specimens, E-type Initiative at Harvard
• Imaging Insect Specimens, E-Type Initiative at Harvard
• Leica Application Suite Imaging Manual, Field Museum of Natural History, Gracen Brilmyer

Paleontology Digitization Workflows and Protocols

• Paul Selden's workflow (including hardware and software notes) for imaging fossil spiders