TY - JOUR
T1 - Specimens, Databases, and Accession Books
T2 - Using TaxonWorks to Integrate Multiple Sources of Modern and Historical Data in the INHS Insect Collection
AU - McElrath, Thomas
AU - Dmitriev, Dmitry
AU - Yoder, Matthew
AU - DeWalt, R. Edward
AU - Dietrich, Christopher
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Grant-supported digitization projects over the past 20 years at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) have yielded over 1,000,000 occurrence records (representing over 2.7 million specimens), one of the most successful digitization efforts within the United States. However, receiving multiple grants at the cutting edge has led to numerous projects left at various stages of completeness, several relational databases, orphaned data, and specimens at various stages of curation. TaxonWorks (taxonworks.org), an integrated web-based workbench developed by the Species File Group and supported by the INHS and the National Science Foundation, has provided the digital infrastructure to unify multiple workflows, projects, databases, and even historical accession books into one easy to access, open-source platform. We demonstrate the practical utility of this platform and summarize past, present, and future efforts at the INHS towards integrating all our data within TaxonWorks.
AB - Grant-supported digitization projects over the past 20 years at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) have yielded over 1,000,000 occurrence records (representing over 2.7 million specimens), one of the most successful digitization efforts within the United States. However, receiving multiple grants at the cutting edge has led to numerous projects left at various stages of completeness, several relational databases, orphaned data, and specimens at various stages of curation. TaxonWorks (taxonworks.org), an integrated web-based workbench developed by the Species File Group and supported by the INHS and the National Science Foundation, has provided the digital infrastructure to unify multiple workflows, projects, databases, and even historical accession books into one easy to access, open-source platform. We demonstrate the practical utility of this platform and summarize past, present, and future efforts at the INHS towards integrating all our data within TaxonWorks.
KW - INHS
U2 - 10.3897/biss.2.25896
DO - 10.3897/biss.2.25896
M3 - Article
SN - 2535-0897
VL - 2
SP - e25896
JO - Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
JF - Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
ER -