期刊
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
卷 7, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PENSOFT PUBL
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e32342
关键词
mass digitisation; automation; microscope slides; Phthiraptera; Data Matrix barcodes; natural history collections
资金
- Museum's Digital Collection Programme
- SYNTHESYS Project - European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 Integrating Activities Programme
- H2020
The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections. One aim of the programme has been to improve the workflows and infrastructure needed to support high-throughput digitisation and create comprehensive digital inventories of large scientific collections. This paper presents the workflow developed to digitise the entire Phthiraptera (parasitic lice) microscope slide collection (70,663 slides). Here we describe a novel process of semi-automated mass digitisation using both temporary and permanent barcode labels applied before and during slide imaging. By using a series of barcodes encoding information associated with each slide (i.e. unique identifier, location in the collection and taxonomic name), we can run a series of automated processes, including file renaming, image processing and bulk import into the NHM's collection management system. We provide data on the comparative efficiency of these processes, illustrating how simple activities, like automated file renaming, reduces image post-processing time, minimises human error and can be applied across multiple collection types.
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