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

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

Imaging Equipment

• Hirox KH-8700

Imaging Equipment Demos

• Gigapan
• Hirox
• InvertNet
• Ortery
• SatScan
• Visionary Digital Passport II

Databases

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