PPT-The use of OCR in the digitisation of herbarium specimens

Robyn E Drinkwater Robert Cubey amp Elspeth Haston What is happening in digitisation and these minimal data records are going to need data added to them Parse OCR text directly into the database fields. Programme . Ben . Atkinson and . Laurence . Livermore. Natural History Museum, . London. SPNHC 21. st. May 2015. A structured approach to mass digitisation. The Digital Natural History Museum (NHM). and Monographs for Plant Systematics. Spring . 2014. Systematics. Science of organismal diversity. Discovery, description and interpretation of biological diversity. Discovery and description of the evolutionary tree of life (phylogeny). What is digitisation? Digitisation is the conversion of data into digital form that can be processed by a computer. A scanner is used on print documents to create a PDF ( P ortable D ocument F orma Principles, aim and systems of classification. History of taxonomy , identification and nomenclature. Terminology and trends in taxonomy. Herbarium and specimen construction . Taxonomy of selected angiosperm families monocots and . on Social Security - process improvement or paradigm shift?. Chris Gibbon. Agenda. T. he forces driving . digitisation. in social security. New technology driven business models in the commercial sector. Prof Helena Barnard. Outline. What we know about MNCs and economic development. Three development questions raised by digitisation. The implications of a hierarchy of locations. The role of clustering. and Monographs for Plant Systematics. Spring . 2014. Systematics. Science of organismal diversity. Discovery, description and interpretation of biological diversity. Discovery and description of the evolutionary tree of life (phylogeny). Dr. Habibur Rahman, Associate Professor, . J. N. College, Boko. Herbarium. A . herbarium.  is a storehouse of plant specimens which are collected, dried and mounted on handmade paper sheets. They will be arranged in plant . J. N. College, Boko. VIRTUAL . HERBARIUM :. In botany, a virtual herbarium . is a . herbarium in a digitized form. That is. , it . concerns a collection of . digital images . of preserved plants or plant parts. Martha Case, Director. Beth Chambers, Curator. Herbaria are repositories of dried and pressed plant specimens, . archivally. maintained in a “library of plants. WILLI. History of Herbaria. Due to nature of plant biochemistry (e.g., cell wall, lignin), dried, pressed plants can last for centuries (even millennia). GLOBAL Digitization Workflow. . Kimberly Watson, Assistant Director of the Herbarium for Botanical Information Management. Leanna McMillin, Digital Asset Manager: April 2021. Image post-processing. Adobe . . Dry mount of plant . . The steps of plant preserving: . A. . Allow and support accurate identification of plants, algae, lichens and fungi.. B. . Provide a permanent record for a species occurring at a particular time and place.. Plant Collecting and Documentation. Collections:. Samples of plants. Dried or liquid preserved.. Kept alive, grown in greenhouse or garden. Ѵ. Preservation is of types:. 1. . Dry Preservation/Herbarium: . 420 million years in 1.7 million specimens. Carl J . Rothfels. , Cindy Looy, Diane Erwin, . Joyce Gross. , . Amy . Kasameyer. , . Edward Gilbert. , Matt von . Konrat. , Emily Sessa, Kimberly Watson, Richard .