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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections

by Livermore, Laurence , Price, Benjamin W. , Smith, Vincent S. , Blagoderov, Vladimir , Holtzhausen, Pieter , Hudson, Lawrence N. , Heaton, Alice , van der Walt, Stéfan

in Algorithms / Analysis / Animals / Applied mathematics / Automation / Biodiversity / Collections / Computer Graphics / Computer programs / Data capture / Data collection / Data processing / Digitization / Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods / Information Storage and Retrieval / Insecta - physiology / Insects / Life sciences / Metadata / Microscopy - methods / Moths / Museums / Natural history / Natural History - methods / Open source software / Operating systems / Pathogens / Post-processing / Post-production processing / Scientific research / Software / Software development tools / Source code / Taxonomy / Technology application / Transcription

2015

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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections

by Livermore, Laurence , Price, Benjamin W. , Smith, Vincent S. , Blagoderov, Vladimir , Holtzhausen, Pieter , Hudson, Lawrence N. , Heaton, Alice , van der Walt, Stéfan

2015

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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections

by Livermore, Laurence , Price, Benjamin W. , Smith, Vincent S. , Blagoderov, Vladimir , Holtzhausen, Pieter , Hudson, Lawrence N. , Heaton, Alice , van der Walt, Stéfan

2015

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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections

Livermore, Laurence,

Price, Benjamin W.,

Smith, Vincent S.,

Blagoderov, Vladimir,

Holtzhausen, Pieter,

Hudson, Lawrence N.,

Heaton, Alice,

van der Walt, Stéfan

2015

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The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. To facilitate these studies and improve access to collections, many organisations are embarking on major programmes of digitization. This requires automated approaches to mass-digitization that support rapid imaging of specimens and associated data capture, in order to process the tens of millions of specimens common to most natural history collections. In this paper we present Inselect-a modular, easy-to-use, cross-platform suite of open-source software tools that supports the semi-automated processing of specimen images generated by natural history digitization programmes. The software is made up of a Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktop application, together with command-line tools that are designed for unattended operation on batches of images. Blending image visualisation algorithms that automatically recognise specimens together with workflows to support post-processing tasks such as barcode reading, label transcription and metadata capture, Inselect fills a critical gap to increase the rate of specimen digitization.

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Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Subject

Algorithms

/ Analysis

/ Animals

/ Applied mathematics

/ Automation

/ Biodiversity

/ Collections