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