Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections.

ABSTRACT: 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 co

SUBMITTER: Hudson LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658125 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature