GigaPan megapixel imaging and best practices for digitizing entomological collections
Katja C. Seltmann*1, Babi Hammond*2, Matthew Bertone1, Andrew R. Deans1 1North Carolina State University, Department of Entomology, Campus Box 7613, Raleigh, NC, USA; 2Department of Information Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA The North Carolina State {University} Insect Museum is working to image every drawer in the 1.5 million specimen collection and disseminate these data through the Web. The effort is worthwhile in that we expose the "research only" collection to the public, allow for remote curation of specimens, and enable more informed loan requests. The details and process for creating GigaPan (zoomable, mega-pixel images of entire drawers of specimens) images are outlined in the talk. Secondly, as part of a CollectionsWeb Research Coordination Network (RCN) funded internship awarded to Babi Hammond, preliminary results of a survey is presented looking at the use of online entomological collection data. Survey participants are asked to review and rate the utility of multiple online presentations of collection data; specimen information without images, GigaPan images, and detailed images with specimen data. The results will help institutions with entomological collections and the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program participants better understand how to apply their resources and digitization efforts.
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- 1. GigaPan megapixel imaging and best practices for digitizing entomological collections NCSU Insect Museum, North Carolina State University Metadata Research Center/SILS/University North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC STATE UNIVERSITY Entomological Collections Network Meeting Reno, 2011 Katja Seltmann, Babi Hammond, Matthew Bertone, Jane Greenberg, and Andrew R. Deans
- 10. zoom tools panorama snapshots w/comments geo-reference explore score panorama info panorama comments
- 20. “ Lots of hairs” “ Not much here (a bit abstract)”
- 21. Panorama by Alex Smith (University of Guelph)
- 27. [benchmark] (results so far: tiny significance)
Editor's Notes
- From meeting with ALA; similar to SatScan but less expensive;
- Did not develop anything; used existing technology and streamlined workflow
- Includes specimen staging; cost of hourly wage earners; many of the kinks worked out now
- Used presently existing technology and consentrated on workflow
- We are not very good at marketing our own stuff; Existing Website makes it a challenge to give us feedback from annotations; Search mechanisms not granular enough for collection information; need better annotation tool - perhaps the ability to annotate phenotypes?
- Mark Greene and Dennis Meissner American Archivist 68 (2005): 208-263 movement in archival processing that deals with the realization that we will not be able to be 100perfect, so it is important to identify where we can get the most inforamtion for minimal effort
- Kevin Williams found misidentified (outdated identification) in Mutillidae; Determinations of cercopids by Andy Hamelton; Collection even examined by an individual in order to make an informed donations; inclusion of expansion space (curation of collection); seen as 10 year event Transisiton into benchmarking efforts
- 2,200 individual images to create this GigaPan
- Alex Smith fine fellows grant; found habitat and linked 2; not anticipated
- 1.6 million specimens NSF BRC grant for collection improvement NO PUBLIC COLLECTION
- Babi Collectionweb Don’t worry about it saying entomologist
- Small taxon authority databases presently most used