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