A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides

E Louise Allan; Laurence Livermore; Benjamin Price; Olha Shchedrina; Vincent Smith

doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e32342

Andrea Santangeli, Yuxuan Chen, Mark Boorman, Sofía Sales Ligero, Guillermo Albert García (2022)
Semi‐automated detection of tagged animals from camera trap images using artificial intelligence. Ibis 164: 1123.

DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13099

Alex Hardisty, Laurence Livermore, Stephanie Walton, Matt Woodburn, Helen Hardy (2020)
Costbook of the digitisation infrastructure of DiSSCo. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.6.e58915

Quentin Groom, Mathias Dillen, Wouter Addink, Arturo H. Ariño, Christian Bölling, Pierre Bonnet, Lorenzo Cecchi, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Rui Figueira, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Olwen Grace, Anton Güntsch, Helen Hardy, Pieter Huybrechts, Roger Hyam, Alexis Joly, Vamsi Krishna Kommineni, Isabel Larridon, Laurence Livermore, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Sofie Meeus, Jeremy Miller, Kenzo Milleville, Renato Panda, Marc Pignal, Jorrit Poelen, Blagoj Ristevski, Tim Robertson, Ana Rufino, Joaquim Santos, Maarten Schermer, Ben Scott, Katja Seltmann, Heliana Teixeira, Maarten Trekels, Jitendra Gaikwad (2023)
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e109439

Elizabeth Louise Allan, Steen Dupont, Helen Hardy, Laurence Livermore, Benjamin Price, Vincent Smith (2019)
High-Throughput Digitisation of Natural History Specimens. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: .

DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37337

Stephanie Walton, Laurence Livermore, Mathias Dillen, Sofie De Smedt, Quentin Groom, Anne Koivunen, Sarah Phillips (2020)
A cost analysis of transcription systems. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.6.e56211

Madelynn von Baeyer, John M. Marston (2021)
Best practices for digitizing a wood slide collection: The Bailey-Wetmore Wood Collection of the Harvard University Herbaria. Quaternary International 593-594: 50.

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.053

Patrizia Tassinari, Marco Bovo, Stefano Benni, Simone Franzoni, Matteo Poggi, Ludovica Maria Eugenia Mammi, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, Filippo Bonora, Alberto Barbaresi, Enrica Santolini, Daniele Torreggiani (2021)
A computer vision approach based on deep learning for the detection of dairy cows in free stall barn. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 182: 106030.

DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2021.106030

Beulah H. Garner, Thomas J. Creedy, Elizabeth L. Allan, Robyn Crowther, Elizabeth Devenish, Phaedra Kokkini, Laurence Livermore, Krisztina Lohonya, Nicola Lowndes, Peter Wing, Alfried P. Vogler (2024)
The taxonomic composition and chronology of a museum collection of Coleoptera revealed through large-scale digitisation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12: .

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1305931

Neil S. Cobb, Lawrence F. Gall, Jennifer M. Zaspel, Nicolas J. Dowdy, Lindsie M. McCabe, Akito Y. Kawahara (2019)
Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research. PeerJ 7: e8086.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8086

Louise Ahl, Luca Bellucci, Philippa Brewer, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Elspeth Haston, Laurence Livermore, Sofie De Smedt, Helen Hardy, Henrik Enghoff (2023)
Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.9.e114548

Tayla A. Green, Pat A. Hutchings, Fiona R. Scarff, James R. Tweedley, Michael C. Calver, Claudia Noemi González Brambila (2023)
Research publications of Australia’s natural history museums, 1981–2020: Enduring relevance in a changing world. PLOS ONE 18: e0287659.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287659

Alex Hardisty, Hannu Saarenmaa, Ana Casino, Mathias Dillen, Karsten Gödderz, Quentin Groom, Helen Hardy, Dimitris Koureas, Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga, Deborah Paul, Veljo Runnel, Xavier Vermeersch, Myriam van Walsum, Luc Willemse (2020)
Conceptual design blueprint for the DiSSCo digitization infrastructure - DELIVERABLE D8.1. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.6.e54280

Kirsten R. Butcher, Mitchell J. Power, Madlyn Larson, Matthew P. Orr, Susana Velásquez‐Franco, Michelle A. Hudson, Vanessa J. Bailey (2021)
Museum Leadership for Engaging, Equitable Education: The Transformative Potential of Digitized Collections for Authentic Learning Experiences. Curator: The Museum Journal 64: 383.

DOI: 10.1111/cura.12423

F. V. Konstantinov, A. A. Namyatova (2019)
Taxonomic Revisions and Specimen Databases in the Internet Age: Dealing with a Species Rich Insect Taxon. Entomological Review 99: 340.

DOI: 10.1134/S0013873819030072

Alex Hardisty, Paul Brack, Carole Goble, Laurence Livermore, Ben Scott, Quentin Groom, Stuart Owen, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2022)
The Specimen Data Refinery: A Canonical Workflow Framework and FAIR Digital Object Approach to Speeding up Digital Mobilisation of Natural History Collections. Data Intelligence 4: 320.

DOI: 10.1162/dint_a_00134

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga, Paul L. Rosin, Xianfang Sun, Laurence Livermore, James Durrant, James Turner, Mathias Dillen, Alicia Musson, Sarah Phillips, Quentin Groom, Alex Hardisty (2022)
Cross-validation of a semantic segmentation network for natural history collection specimens. Machine Vision and Applications 33: .

DOI: 10.1007/s00138-022-01276-z

Joan E. Ball-Damerow, Laura Brenskelle, Narayani Barve, Pamela S. Soltis, Petra Sierwald, Rüdiger Bieler, Raphael LaFrance, Arturo H. Ariño, Robert P. Guralnick, Daniel de Paiva Silva (2019)
Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age. PLOS ONE 14: e0215794.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215794

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga, Paul Rosin, Xianfang Sun, Ann Bogaerts, Niko De Meeter, Sofie De Smedt, Maarten Strack van Schijndel, Paul Van Wambeke, Quentin Groom (2020)
Designing an Herbarium Digitisation Workflow with Built-In Image Quality Management. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e47051

Helen Hardy, Myriam van Walsum, Laurence Livermore, Stephanie Walton (2020)
Research and development in robotics with potential to automate handling of biological collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.6.e61366