Label Transcript is Done – Now what do we do with that Data?

By

Cubey, Robert
Haston, Elspeth
King, Sally

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-6-13

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

2

Pages

1--2

Subjects

 natural history collections ,  workflows , Edinburgh , Herbarium , Specimens

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.27055

 

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.