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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Conference Abstract
Label Transcript is Done – Now what do we do with that Data?
Robert W. N. Cubey‡, Elspeth Margaret Haston‡, Sally King‡
‡ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Corresponding author: Robert W. N. Cubey (r.cubey@rbge.org.uk)
Received: 29 May 2018 | Published: 13 Jun 2018
© 2018 Robert Cubey, Elspeth Haston, Sally King
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Cubey R, Haston E, King S (2018) Label Transcript is Done – Now what do we do with that Data? Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e27055. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.27055
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Abstract
The transcription of natural history collection labels is occurring via a variety of different methods – in-house curators, commercial operations, citizen scientists, visiting researchers, linked data, optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten text recognition (HTR), etc., but what can a collections data manager do with this flood of data? There are a whole raft of questions around this incoming data stream - who values it, who needs it, where is it stored, where is it displayed, who has access to it, etc. This talk plans to address these topics with reference to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh herbarium dataset.
Keywords
Edinburgh, Herbarium, natural history collections, workflows, specimens
Presenting author
Robert Cubey
Presented at
SPNHC-TDWG 2018