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
• 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

Imaging Wet Collections

• 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

Identifiers, Databases, and Sharing Data

• It's About Data: Identifiers, Darwin Core, Sharing Data, Choosing a Database, Digitization Maturity (pptx by Deborah Paul, Greg Riccardi, Joanna McCaffrey)

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
• 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