Whole-drawer imaging for digital management and curation of a large entomological collection

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 147-163

  Mantle, Beth Louise ^a   la Salle, John ^a   Fisher, Nicole ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collections; Digitisation; Entomology; Imaging; Satscan; Whole drawer

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864628548     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3169     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Polaszek A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Bouchet P, Brothers DJ, Evenhuis NL, Krell FT, Lyal CHC, Minelli A, Pyle RL, Robinson N, Thompson FC, van Tol J (2005) ZooBank: the open access register for zoological taxonomy: Technical Discussion Paper. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62: 210-220.
2. Beaman R, Macklin JA, Donohue MJ, Hanken J (2007) Overcoming the digitization bottleneck in Natural History Collections: A summary report on a workshop held 7-9 September 2006 at Harvard University. http://www.etaxonomy.org/wiki/images/b/b3/Harvard_data_capture_wkshp_rpt_2006.pdf [Accessed 29 February 2012]
3. Bertone MA, Deans AD (2010) Remote curation and outreach: examples from the NCSU Insect Museum GigaPan Project. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November 11-13 2010.
4. Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Simonsen T, Smith S (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd. Available from Nature Precedings http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2010.4486.1 [Accessed 25 February 2012]
5. Drew J (2011) The role of natural history institutions and bioinformatics in conservation biology. Conservation Biology 25(6): 1250-1252. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01725.x
6. Johnson N (2012) A collaborative, integrated and electronic future for taxonomy. Invertebrate Systematics 25: 471-475. doi: 10.1071/IS11052
7. Mantle BL, Fisher N, La Salle R J (2011) Whole drawer imaging for curation and management of the ANIC. TDWG 2011 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.tdwg.org/fileadmin/2011conference/slides/Mantle_SatScanANIC.pdf [Accessed 15 March 2012]
8. McGinley RJ (1993) Where's the management in collections management? Planning for improved care, greater use, and growth of collections. International Symposium and First World Congress on the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections Vol. 3: 309-338.
9. New South Wales Auditor-General's Report (2010) Knowing the Collections: Australian Museum Performance Audit. http://australianmuseum.net.au/document/Knowing-the-Collections-audit-report [Accessed 15 March 2012]
10. Vollmar A, Macklin JA, Ford L (2010) Natural history specimen digitization: challenges and concerns. Biodiversity Informatics 7: 93-110.
11. The British Natural History Museum Entomology Department webpage: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/departments/entomology/ [Accessed 2 March 2012]
12. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Entomology wepage: http://entomology.si.edu/ [Accessed 2 March 2012]
13. The Australian National Insect Collection webpage: http://www.csiro.au/en/Organisation-Structure/National-Facilities/Australian-National-Insect-Collection/ANIC-Profile.aspx [Accessed 2 March 2012]