SPNHCworkshop2016
SYNTHESYS3 and iDigBio joint workshop on selected tools for automated metadata capture from specimen images
Presented by Inselect, ABBYY & Symbiota
This workshop is jointly hosted by the EU-based SYNTHESYS3 project and the US-based iDigBio project. It will be a mix of informative presentations, practical training and open discussion with an aim to make these tools more accessible to institutes of all sizes. Inselect currently supports automated recognition, cropping and annotation of scanned images of items such as drawers of pinned insects and trays of microscope slides. ABBYY FineReader is an OCR tool which has been found to perform well for specimens, enabling the automated capture of specimen label data. Symbiota is a virtual platform which incorporates OCR, NLP and crowdsourced transcription modules.
Time: June 25, 2016, all day
Venue: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum
Fee: Free
Programme
| SYNTHESYS3 and iDigBio joint workshop | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Introduction & Set-up | Elspeth Haston / Deb Paul |
| 09.30 – 10.30 | Inselect | Lawrence Hudson |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10.45 – 11.30 | Inselect | Lawrence Hudson |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Symbiota | Anne Barber |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 – 14.30 | Symbiota | Anne Barber |
| 14.45 – 15.45 | ABBYY | Tim Kuhl |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | ABBYY | Tim Kuhl |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | Wrap-up | Elspeth Haston & Deb Paul |
Symbiota
Preparing for this workshop. Please have the following items completed before the workshop:
- Fill out the survey.
- Make sure you can log in to Symbiota Sandbox with username and password (check your email from Anne Barber)
- Enable pop-ups for http://hasbrouck.asu.edu
- Make sure Symbiota Sandbox works on your browser. With the exception of some older versions of Internet Explorer, you shouldn’t have any problem with this step.
- Bring a set of 5-10 specimen images, in JPG format, with you to the workshop. You may have more than one image per specimen, for example: 12345_dorsal.jpg, 12345_lateral.jpg, 12345_label.jpg, etc.
- Bring a set of 5-10 specimen records exported from your database, in CSV or DwC-A format, with you to the workshop. These can correspond to the image set, but it’s not required.
- Optional: Browse through the documentation on Symbiota.org.
