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Digitization workflows for paleontology collections

T. Karim,R. Burkhalter,Una C. Farrell,A. Molineux,Gil Nelson,Jessica Utrup,Susan Butts

Published 2016 in Palaeontologia Electronica

ABSTRACT

The development of digitization workflows is an essential part of any formalized large-scale digitization program. Paleontological collections literature has addressed the need for, and utility of, digitized collections for nearly four decades, but no modern, community-vetted set of digitization workflows to accomplish this goal has been widely adopted. With the advent of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program in 2011, iDigBio, NSF’s national coordinating center for facilitating digitization, in collaboration with broad community representation from numerous institutions, launched a series of working groups to address workflow development across all major preparation types. Workflow modules have been developed for pre-digitization curation, data entry, imaging objects (catalogs, field notes and other materials not stored with specimens, labels, twoand three-dimensionally preserved specimens), image processing, and proactive digitization. Modules and the tasks they include may be implemented in any order and customized for specific configurations and institutional parameters. The workflows are made publicly available for download and customization at GitHub and via the iDigBio documentation pages. A review of platforms for electronic data publishing through online aggregators, a crucial step in any digitization program, is also provided. Talia S. Karim. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado 80503, USA. talia.karim@colorado.edu Roger Burkhalter. Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma 73072, USA. rjb@ou.edu Úna C. Farrell. Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ufarrell@stanford.edu Ann Molineux. Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab, University of Texas, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758, USA. annm@austin.utexas.edu Gil Nelson. Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32303, USA. gnelson@bio.fsu.edu Jessica Utrup. Yale University, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, 170 Whitney Avenue, PO Box 208118, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. jessica.utrup@yale.edu Susan H. Butts. Yale University, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, 170 Whitney Avenue, PO Box 208118, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. susan.butts@yale.edu Karim, Talia S., Burkhalter, Roger, Farrell, Úna C., Molineux, Ann, Nelson, Gil, and Butts, Susan H. 2016. Digitization workflows for paleontology collections. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.3.4T: 1-14 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1569-digitization-workflows Copyright: Paleontological Society October 2016 KARIM ET AL.: DIGITIZATION WORKFLOWS

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Venue

    Palaeontologia Electronica

  • Publication date

    2016-10-19

  • Fields of study

    Engineering, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.26879/566
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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