Hi Everyone,

Wondering about different ways you might capture and process images of
objects in drawers or trays? Or perhaps figure out a new way to image
slides, paleontological specimens, etc., and get the data transcribed?
Inselect software may give you some new options.

*Webinar*: Insights into Inselect Software: automating image processing,
barcode reading, and validation of user-defined data

*WEBINAR Announcement and Details
https*://www.idigbio.org/content/insights-inselect-software-automating-image-processing-barcode-reading-and-validation-user

This webinar will give an overview of the software, how it can be
integrated into existing digitization workflows and a discussion of
areas for development and possible future applications. The talk will be
of interest to curators, digitizers and IT staff. Inselect is under
active development  at the NHM. We are very excited to engage with the
community and receive feedback and ideas.

*When*: Tuesday 29th March, 11 am EDT (4pm BST)
*Presenters*: Lawrence Hudson and Ben Price, Natural History Museum, London.
*Where*: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt
Contact for questions: Lawrence Hudson, Software Developer for Inselect
l.hudson AT nhm.ac.uk

The software combines image processing, barcode reading, batch
processing and validation of user-defined metadata to offer a high level
of automation. Inselect has been used by curators and digitizers within
the Natural History Museum, London, to process in excess of 100,000
specimens so far and is presently being used by several institutions on
pinned insects, microscope slides, paleontological specimens, dried
sponges and other specimen types.

*Background reading*

     PLOS ONE paper on Inselect:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0143402
     Home page with source code, issues and releases:
https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/inselect
         You can install it. Download installer software from the
*releases* tab

Best,
Deb, et al at iDigBio on behalf of the NHM and Inselect
 From iDigBio: This webinar brought to you by the Inselect developers
and the NHM as one outcome of a break-out group at iDigBio Summit V on
ideas for scaling up digitization.

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