Project team
- Rebecca Summerfield
- Vladamir Blagoderov
- Emma Sherlock
- Alex Ball
- Ben Price
- Theresa Howard
- Louise Allan
A project to create workflows and data pipelines for high-throughput, digitisation of the museum’s diverse slide collections.
We are using state-of-the-art equipment to capture images and extract data from a selection of our microscopic slides collection.
The pilot is to design workflows for 2 microscope slide digitisation workflows:
The pilot project is split into 2 main workflows:
This is the broad and thin high-throughput approach to digitisation.We have digitised 100,000 slides using the SatScan
A unique identifier (barcode) was attached to each slidea taxonomy and location record wasin the Museum's collections management system with Using Inselect
Images needed for research on the actual specimen not just the data. Approx 20% of the slides will go through the high resolution Axioscan at 5x magnification and be fully transcribed by a digitiser.
We are digitising 80 million specimens from our collections to an online data portal.
Establishing high-throughput digital capture workflows for collection types.
The Museum's 80 million specimens form the world’s most important natural history collection.