Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation
There are approximately 1.5 billion specimens kept in European Natural History Collections. The mission for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is to unite all these specimens into a one-stop e-science infrastructure of digital specimens. This is a monumental digitisation task...
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| author | Louise Ahl Luca Bellucci Philippa Brewer Pierre-Yves Gagnier Elspeth Haston Laurence Livermore Sofie De Smedt Helen Hardy Henrik Enghoff |
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| description | There are approximately 1.5 billion specimens kept in European Natural History Collections. The mission for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is to unite all these specimens into a one-stop e-science infrastructure of digital specimens. This is a monumental digitisation task and criteria for how to prioritise this effort are, therefore, crucial for the success of the project. In this report, we have reviewed the literature and designed and conducted surveys of the digitisation plans and criteria used by DiSSCo Partners to understand the prioritisation criteria used in the digitisation of natural history collections. As an attempt to provide some guidance for the digitisation of specimens, we suggest that an organisation (e.g. DiSSCo or an individual institution) that is planning to digitise natural history collections considers four categories of prioritisation criteria: Relevance, Data quality, Cost and Feasibility. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac4127c28bcd427a8fcc9a8a2cc536a62023-11-04T09:11:04ZengPensoft PublishersResearch Ideas and Outcomes2367-71632023-11-01913510.3897/rio.9.e114548114548Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisationLouise Ahl0Luca Bellucci1Philippa Brewer2Pierre-Yves Gagnier3Elspeth Haston4Laurence Livermore5Sofie De Smedt6Helen Hardy7Henrik Enghoff8Natural History Museum of DenmarkMuseo di Geologia e Paleontologia - Università di FirenzeNatural History Museum of DenmarkMuséum national d'histoire naturelleRoyal Botanic Garden EdinburghThe Natural History MuseumBotanic Garden MeiseNatural History MuseumNatural History Museum of DenmarkThere are approximately 1.5 billion specimens kept in European Natural History Collections. The mission for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is to unite all these specimens into a one-stop e-science infrastructure of digital specimens. This is a monumental digitisation task and criteria for how to prioritise this effort are, therefore, crucial for the success of the project. In this report, we have reviewed the literature and designed and conducted surveys of the digitisation plans and criteria used by DiSSCo Partners to understand the prioritisation criteria used in the digitisation of natural history collections. As an attempt to provide some guidance for the digitisation of specimens, we suggest that an organisation (e.g. DiSSCo or an individual institution) that is planning to digitise natural history collections considers four categories of prioritisation criteria: Relevance, Data quality, Cost and Feasibility.https://riojournal.com/article/114548/download/pdf/DiSSCo PrepareDiSSConatural history collection |
| spellingShingle | Louise Ahl Luca Bellucci Philippa Brewer Pierre-Yves Gagnier Elspeth Haston Laurence Livermore Sofie De Smedt Helen Hardy Henrik Enghoff Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation Research Ideas and Outcomes DiSSCo Prepare DiSSCo natural history collection |
| title | Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation |
| title_full | Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation |
| title_fullStr | Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation |
| title_short | Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation |
| title_sort | digitisation of natural history collections criteria for prioritisation |
| topic | DiSSCo Prepare DiSSCo natural history collection |
| url | https://riojournal.com/article/114548/download/pdf/ |
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