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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