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ArticleBiodiversity data journal2020

A strategy to digitise natural history collections with limited resources.

Joaquim Santos, Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Fátima Sales

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Article in Biodiversity data journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Joaquim SantosUniversity of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal University of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences Coimbra Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2160-4968
Paulo Rupino da CunhaUniversity of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering Coimbra Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-5248
Fátima SalesUniversity of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal University of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences Coimbra Portugal.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present work is a contribution towards accelerating the digitisation process of natural history collections, usually a slow process. A two-stage process was developed at the herbarium of the University of Coimbra: (i) a new workflow was established to automatically create records in the herbarium master database with minimum information, while capturing digital images; (ii) these records are then used to populate a web-based crowdsourcing platform where citizens are involved in the transcription of specimen labels from the digital images. This approach simplifies and accelerates databasing, reduces specimen manipulation and promotes the involvement of citizens in the scientific goals of the herbarium. The novel features of this process are: (i) the validation method of the crowdsourcing contribution that ensures quality control, enabling the data to integrate the master database directly and (ii) the field-by-field integration in the master database enables immediate corrections to any record in the catalogue.

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accelerating herbarium digitisationautomate databasing processescrowdsourcing platform

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PMID33177945
PMCPMC7599201

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