Setting Collections Data Free with the Power of the Crowd - SYNTHESYS3
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The document outlines the progress of a crowdsourcing initiative aimed at enhancing metadata for digital collections from natural history institutions, with a focus on the contributions of volunteers in digitizing and transcribing specimens. The project, supported by the NSF and utilizing Zooniverse's Panoptes tool, reports significant engagement and completion rates across various batches of slides and specimens. It highlights the aim of improving access and quality of digital data while fostering community interest in botany and natural history.
Setting Collections Data Free with the Power of the Crowd - SYNTHESYS3
- 1. Setting Collections Data Free …with the power of the crowd
- 2. WP4 - Moving from physical to digital collections Obj. 3 - Crowdsourcing metadata enrichment of digital images Task 3.2 – Development of website to allow crowdsourcing data capture
- 3. 80m specimens • 30m insects • 7m fossils • 5,000 meteorites • 250 yrs of collecting • 50b yrs of life on earth represented
- 9. The NHM Digital Collections Programme • Small & Flat • 500,000+ Lepidoptera of the British Isles • 150,000 microscope slides – 6,000+ Chalcidoidea – 2,000+ Foraminifera
- 11. Slide digitisation 650~ 1,000 /day
- 12. 15,000+ transcriptions for 5,000+ specimens with 1,000+ volunteers
- 13. 98% complete 9.5% complete
- 14. The Notes from Nature platform has been developed by a team from the University of Florida and SERNEC, supported by funding from the NSF, using the Panoptes open project-building tool on the Zooniverse platform. Miniature Lives Magnified, on the Notes from Nature Platform
- 15. 2,097 slides 150 days 600+ participants Batch #1 Aug 17th~ Jan 13th Batch #2 Jan 23rd ~ Mar 29th 2,097 slides 61 days 900+ participants Batch #3 Mar 29th ~ June 5th 68 days 90%
- 17. 61 Visiteers / 7,000+ Classifications
- 21. 88% complete Amaranthaceae: Cosmopolitan Allrounder 37
- 26. 90% complete Primulaceae of the World: More than Primroses and Cowslips 111
- 29. 98% complete 9.5% complete
- 31. 157 slides 12 days 38 participants Batch #1 Apr 29th~ May10th Batch #2 May 14th~ Jun 5th 1,000 slides 22 days / 9% 204 59
- 32. Reduce Error with Drop-downs
- 33. 91% complete Exploring Tropical Sweden
- 34. Exploring Tropical Sweden 1364 903 images / 91% complete / 125 Volunteers
- 36. Exploring Tropical Sweden - Talk 44 31
- 37. So how did we fare? The aim of the JRA is to improve the quality of and increase access to digital collections and data within NH institutions’ virtual collections
- 38. “Eventually I found an article dated around 1930 mentioning entomologist G. Carpenter doing research on Tse Tse flies on several islands in north Victoria Lake belonging to Uganda. It specifically lists Wema Island as one of these islands he was visiting and catching specimens on. If you Google "wema island lake Victoria carpenter” you'll come across the article. Since the name & era matched the image listing Wema Island and I didn't think there were that many entomologists named "G Garpenter" setting foot on an island called Wema in the early 20th century I was pretty convinced the country should be Uganda.”
- 39. “Am I the only one here who's been inspired by the specimens we see here to try to learn more about the plants around me and how they work? Take some photos and post them here to show us what's growing in your part of the world, and join me in trying to learn a little botany from what we see. …To kick off summer, here's a gallery of Iris photos (same common name and scientific name) I took yesterday and today in my neighborhood. ….I found this short article from the US Forest Service about Irises native to the US, with photos of a few”
- 40. “Can I do more of these at home?” “Wow, that really blew my mind!”
- 41. Gustav VI Adolf King of Sweden
- 43. Access Behind the Scenes
Editor's Notes
- #11: CKAN from the OKFN Open Source on GitHub MapQuest & Open Street Map Built on APIs
- #45: CKAN from the OKFN Open Source on GitHub MapQuest & Open Street Map Built on APIs
- #49: A different kind of challenge – smaller scale but unique, and even more fragile than usual… Equipment / imaging innovation
- #50: A different kind of challenge – smaller scale but unique, and even more fragile than usual… Equipment / imaging innovation
- #51: A different kind of challenge – smaller scale but unique, and even more fragile than usual… Equipment / imaging innovation
- #52: We’ve hacked together some pretty ingenious rigs to get 360 imagery and labels from all angles