Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi

Gil Nelson; Patrick Sweeney; Lisa E. Wallace; Richard K. Rabeler; Dorothy Allard; Herrick Brown; J. Richard Carter; Michael W. Denslow; Elizabeth R. Ellwood; Charlotte C. Germain-Aubrey; Ed Gilbert; Emily Gillespie; Leslie R. Goertzen; Ben Legler; D. Blaine Marchant; Travis D. Marsico; Ashley B. Morris; Zack Murrell; Mare Nazaire; Chris Neefus; Shanna Oberreiter; Deborah Paul; Brad R. Ruhfel; Thomas Sasek; Joey Shaw; Pamela S. Soltis; Kimberly Watson; Andrea Weeks; Austin R. Mast

doi:10.3732/apps.1500065

Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi

Gil Nelson, Patrick Sweeney, Lisa E. Wallace, Richard K. Rabeler, Dorothy Allard, Herrick Brown, J. Richard Carter, Michael W. Denslow, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Charlotte C. Germain-Aubrey, Ed Gilbert, Emily Gillespie, Leslie R. Goertzen, Ben Legler, D. Blaine Marchant, Travis D. Marsico, Ashley B. Morris, Zack Murrell, Mare Nazaire, Chris NeefusShanna Oberreiter, Deborah Paul, Brad R. Ruhfel, Thomas Sasek, Joey Shaw, Pamela S. Soltis, Kimberly Watson, Andrea Weeks, Austin R. Mast

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Abstract

Effective workflows are essential components in the digitization of biodiversity specimen collections. To date, no comprehensive, community-vetted workflows have been published for digitizing flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and fungi, even though latest estimates suggest that only 33% of herbarium specimens have been digitally transcribed, 54% of herbaria use a specimen database, and 24% are imaging specimens. In 2012, iDigBio, the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) coordinating center and national resource for the digitization of public, nonfederal U.S. collections, launched several working groups to address this deficiency. Here, we report the development of 14 workflow modules with 7-36 tasks each. These workflows represent the combined work of approximately 35 curators, directors, and collections managers representing more than 30 herbaria, including 15 NSF-supported plant-related Thematic Collections Networks and collaboratives. The workflows are provided for download as Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word files. Customization of these workflows for specific institutional implementation is encouraged.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1500065
Journal	Applications in Plant Sciences
Volume	3
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1500065
State	Published - Sep 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Citizen science
digital imaging
digitization
herbarium
specimen database
workflow

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Plant Science

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Nelson, G., Sweeney, P., Wallace, L. E., Rabeler, R. K., Allard, D., Brown, H., Carter, J. R., Denslow, M. W., Ellwood, E. R., Germain-Aubrey, C. C., Gilbert, E., Gillespie, E., Goertzen, L. R., Legler, B., Marchant, D. B., Marsico, T. D., Morris, A. B., Murrell, Z., Nazaire, M., ... Mast, A. R. (2015). Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi. Applications in Plant Sciences, 3(9), Article 1500065. https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1500065

Nelson, G, Sweeney, P, Wallace, LE, Rabeler, RK, Allard, D, Brown, H, Carter, JR, Denslow, MW, Ellwood, ER, Germain-Aubrey, CC, Gilbert, E, Gillespie, E, Goertzen, LR, Legler, B, Marchant, DB, Marsico, TD, Morris, AB, Murrell, Z, Nazaire, M, Neefus, C, Oberreiter, S, Paul, D, Ruhfel, BR, Sasek, T, Shaw, J, Soltis, PS, Watson, K, Weeks, A & Mast, AR 2015, 'Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi', Applications in Plant Sciences, vol. 3, no. 9, 1500065. https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1500065

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