Digitizing 'all' North American lichen and bryophyte specimens
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2.3 million specimens, 65 institutions, 1 year later
DIGITIZING 'ALL' NORTH AMERICAN LICHEN AND BRYOPHYTE SPECIMENS
Corinna GriesEdward GilbertThomas H. Nash III
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NSF ADBC funding 2011 ~ 2.3 million specimen (90%)
900,000 lichens 1.4 million bryophytes
65 non-governmental US herbaria (95%) 16 digitization centers (collaborators) Mobilizing existing digital records
2 PEN proposals funded 2012 Add 120,000 specimen
LICHENS BRYOPHYTES CLIMATE CHANGE
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PARTICIPATING HERBARIA
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Research Questions:
How are changes in distribution patterns of lichens and bryophytes over time correlated with man-made environmental changes?
How accurately can we predict where specific species can be found using existing herbarium data?
LICHENS BRYOPHYTES CLIMATE CHANGE
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WORKFLOW
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WORKFLOW
Take ImageFile name: barcode
Create Skeleton FileDarwin Core
Fields: barcode,
species name +
Upload to folder on FTP server Florida
Image processing
Create/Merge Record in Portal
Link Imageunprocessed
Find Duplicates and Edit Record
in PortalPending reviewExisting
Digitized Records
Darwin Core+Approve Record in
Portalreviewed
Central Processing
OCRNLP
Bulk processingPreliminary
geo-referencingprocessed
Manage Records in
Portal
Upload to folder on FTP server Florida
Upload Record in Portal
Link Imagereviewed
+
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TECHNOLOGY
Custom
System
Metadata capture program
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Great variety Camera stands Jewelry lighting boxes Black coverings
Requirements Resolution: small letter x needs to be 20 pixels high Camera needs to connect to a computer Battery life
Barcode reader
IMAGING STATIONS
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Barcode Latest species name
CollectorCollection number
METADATA
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PERSISTENT METADATA
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NUMBERS
Imaging speed 300 – 500 per 8 hour day
Institutions currently uploading images 9
Total number of images on server ~ 130,000
Records available in the bryophyte portal 960,000
Records available in the lichen portal 703,000
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http://lichenportal.orghttp://bryophyteportal.org
http://symbiota.org
PORTALS
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PORTALS
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TRANSCRIPTION
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GEO-REFERENCING
Supervised batch geo-referencing
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Volunteer program within LBCC
Sophisticated User and Workflow Management System in SYMBIOTA Transcription Geo-referencing Professional quality control
CROWD SOURCING
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THANK YOU
Michael Adamo Bruce Allen Meredith Blackwell Bil l Buck Alina Freire-Fierro John Freudenstein Alan Fryday David Giblin Karen Hughes Steffi Ickert-Bond Timothy James Jennifer S. Kluse Matt Von Konrat Ben Legler Tatyana Livshultz
Robert Lücking Francois Lutzoni Bob Magill Andrew Mil ler Brent Mishler Donald Pfister Richard Rabeler Malcolm Sargent Edward Schil l ing Michaela Schmull Blanka Shaw Jon Shaw Carol Shearer Larry StClair Barbara Thiers
Funded by the NSF ADBC program