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. The process of OCR involves several steps including segmentation feature extraction and classification Each of these steps is a field unto itself and is described briefly here in the context of a Matlab implementation of OCR One example of OCR is sh Information Services, . Aberystwyth University. nrj@aber.ac.uk. Business Analytics and . Planning:. Digitisation Benchmarking Project. Why take part?. Low numbers taking up digitisation. Charging for digitisation seen as barrier. Thurs 12. th. November 2015. Our Partners…. 1. . Start . with formal Goals. 2. . Communication. 3. . What . to Digitise. 4. . Image . Outputs & Resolutions. 5. . Plan . for Access. Digitisation Planning - . Paindaveine. DG CONNECT, European Commission. . Digitising. European . industry. Why. . is. . it. . important. What. . can. . we. do . about. . it. ?. 1. Outline. Digital innovations: What is at stake? . Archives, Digitisation and Copyright PhD. Early results from a survey of the UK archive sector. DIGITISATION AND RISK (. AVERSION. ). Dryden, “Copyright issues in the selection of archival material for internet access” (2008) . Two Recent OCR Letters. Presented by:. Eric G. Rodriguez. The Girl in College Station. Student had autism and a speech impairment. She was on the cheerleading squad in middle school, when everyone who wanted to be a cheerleader was a cheerleader. . By Jim Hill, Solutions Specialist. . jim@ufcinc.com. @jimhill100. MMDP. Spring 2016 Meeting. Overview. Definition of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software. Current State of OCR Technology. 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. 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). . 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.. 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 . By Karen Launchbaugh. Forbs & Woody Plant. FORBS.  .  .  . Desert . Merigold. Perennial. Native. Leafy . Spurge. Perennial. Introduced & Noxious. Tailcup. Lupine. Perennial. Native. Tall Larkspur.