Presented in TDWG 2014.

1. Quality driven workflow environment for
digitisation of natural history specimens
Tero Mononen, Riitta Tegelberg, Mira Sääskilahti,
Markku A. Huttunen, Marko Tähtinen, Hannu Saarenmaa
Features
DigiWeb
http://digitarium.fi/
Four main views: Monitoring of digitisation,
browsing, transcribing and administration
User access control manages visibility of views
and permitted operations
ISO 2859 standard based acceptance procedure
for specimen data
Support for multiple internal and external data
sources
Utilizes Java EE, JSF2, PrimeFaces, RDBMS,
Darwin Core and file system
Test project
In total 168,500 herbarium specimens were imaged
Transcribing started in 2013
Training period was provided for personnel before
access to production data
Workflow defined a responsible party for every state of
specimen
The route in workflow depended on the difficulty of
specimen and experience of transcriber
In acceptance procedure 80 of 1,000 (batch) specimens
were verified manually and ≥ 4 flawed specimens
caused rejection of whole batch
Results
Performance and accuracy
improved significantly after
two months work
Location was the main cause
for rejection in quality check