Dried Insect Digitization Workshop

Dried Insect Digitization Workshop Wiki

This wiki contains materials supporting iDigBio's dried insects digitization workshop to be held at The Field Museum, April 24-25, 2013. Included are links to resources, outlines, and training materials related to digitizing dried insect collections.

Workshop Agenda, Notes, Logistics

• Workshop Logistics
• Draft Workshop Agenda
• Day 1 Notes
• Day 2 Notes
• Workshop Info Email #1
• Workshop Info Email #2
• Workshop Info Email #3

Presentations

• Introduction to iDigBio, Gil Nelson
• Designing Effective Workflows, Gil Nelson
• Georeferencing Tools and Practices
• Considerations for selecting a collecions management system, Joanna McCaffrey
• Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), Joanna McCaffrey
• Data Cleaning, Joanna McCaffrey
• Digitization at the NCSU Insect Museum and the Frost Entomological Museum, Andy Deans
• InvertNet, Chris Dietrich (PDF)
• Building Cooperative Digital Collections, Larry Schmidt
• Digitizing Dried Insects: Getting Started, Margaret Thayer and Petra Sierwald
• Powering up Workflows with Volunteers and Division of Labour, Paul Flemons
• Digitisation of Insect Collection at the British Museum of Natural History, Vladimir Blagoderov
• Label Image Automation, Nicola Ferrier and Mark Hereld
• Workflows: Perspectives from Peabody Entomology, Larry Gall
• Imaging Strategies, Tools, and Software, Roy Larimer (Visionary Digital)
• AntWeb: Building the online Global Ant Museum, Brian Fisher

Volunteers and Public Participation

• Flemons & Berents, 2012: Image based Digitisation of Entomology Collections: Leveraging volunteers to increase digitization capacity

Imaging

• Bertone, et. al: Results and insights from the NCSU Insect Museum GigaPan project
• Mantle, et. al: Whole-drawer imaging for digital management and curation of a large entomological collection
• South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Macrophotography
• South Australian Museum Procedures Manual Supplement: Microphotography
• InvertNet: a new paradigm for digital access to invertebrate collections, Dietrich, et al., 2012
• DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections, Schmidt, et al., 2012
• Nomenclatural benchmarking: the roles of digital typification and telemicroscopy, Wheeler, et al., 2012
• Imaging Considerations, E-Type Initiative, Harvard
• Specific Image Requirements - Insects, E-Type Initiative, Harvard
• Roy Larimer's digital flow chart
• Roy Larimer, Important links to imaging, image processing, imaging software, Adobe Lightroom tutorials, and related resources

Imaging Equipment

• Hirox KH-8700

Imaging Equipment Demos

• Gigapan
• Hirox
• InvertNet
• Ortery
• SatScan
• Visionary Digital Passport II
• Leica Application Suite Imaging Manual, FMNH, Gracen Brilmyer

Databases

• Specify PowerPoint workshop presentation, Andy Bentley, University of Kansas.