DemoCamp: BRIT Digitization Appliance

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards

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Jason H. Best¹ 

[1] Botanical Research Institute of Texas

关键词: data mobilization;    software;    workflow;   

DOI  :  10.3897/biss.2.26122

来源: Pensoft

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, the natural history collections community has made great progress in accelerating the pace of collection digitization and global data-sharing. However, a common workflow bottleneck often occurs in that period immediately following image capture but preceding image submission to portals, a critical phase involving quality control, file management, image processing, metadata capture, data backup, and monitoring performance and progress.While larger institutions have likely developed reliable, automated workflows over time, small and medium institutions may not have the expertise or resources to design and implement workflows that take full advantage of automation opportunities. Without automation, these institutions must invest many hours of manual effort to meet quality and performance goals.To address its own needs, BRIT developed a number of workflow automation components, which coalesced over time into a suite of tools that operate on both an image capture station as a client application and on a server that provides file storage and image processing features. Together, these tools were created to meet the following goals:Simplify file management and data preservation through automationQuickly identify quality issuesQuickly capture skeletal metadata to facilitate later databasingSignificantly reduce time between image capture and online availabilityProvide performance and quality monitoring and reportingEasy configuration and maintenance of client and serverThe client and server components together can be considered a “digitization appliance”: software integrated with the specific goal of providing a comprehensive suite of digitization tools that can be quickly and easily deployed on simple consumer hardware. We have made this software available to the natural history collections community under an open-source license at https://github.com/BRITorg/digitization_appliance.

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