The Digital Facility – Supporting Digitisation Vladimir Blagoderov

NHM Science Strategy and Digitisation The Digital NHM Origins, Evolution and Futures Biodiversity Discovery Natural Resources and Hazards Science, Society and Skills

What is Digitisation? In narrow sense: making it digital Digital form of occurrence record of the specimen Linked to additional information: – taxonomic: determination, taxonomic history, references; – curatorial: collection history, location; – multimedia: photo/audio/video/3D models/analysis results etc. Broader: managing, using and sharing data

Processes: databasing/label or registry transcription georeferencing imaging ingest into Emu

Different levels of digitisation: Collection level descriptions, taxonomic indexing, drawer level imaging (collection management) Specimen/lot occurrence records (ecological projects) High quality specimen imaging (taxonomic projects)

Functions of Digital Facilities Help to organise your digitisation work: – design the best suited workflow, – recommend available instruments and tools, – ensure quality and following standards Provide labour force and manage larger digitisation projects

Prioritising and Planning: Research/Collection Management/Facilities work together Justification – Users: researchers, curators, external users Scope: Collection Management and Users Method: Facilities and Users and Collection Management

Instruments: Macrophotography

Instruments: Macrophotography Photomicrography

Instruments: Macrophotography Photomicrography Herbarium scanning/photograph ing

Instruments: Macrophotography Photomicrography Herbarium scanning/photograph ing Collection scanning

Instruments: Macrophotography Photomicrography Herbarium scanning/photograph ing Collection scanning Slide scanning 50,000 slides/year Up to 0.11μ/px 1,000,000 slides/year Up to 17μ/px