Literature and Links
This page provides links to useful digitisation literature and resources. Get in touch with us (lisa.french@nhm.ac.uk) if there is a paper or link we should add to this list.
Journal Articles
You can find a link to the full list of journal articles here, or browse papers by Digitisation Stage and Collection Type.
The links on this page will take you through to the DiSSCo Knowledgebase, which contains information from all of the DiSSCo-linked projects.
Digitisation Stage
Pre-Digitisation Curation
Specimen Image Capture
Specimen Image Processing
Electronic Data Capture
Georeferencing Specimen Data
Preserving and Publishing Data
Collection Type
Anthropological
Herbarium Sheets
Microscope Slides
Mineralogical
Non-insect Invertebrates
Palaeontological
Pinned Insects
Spirit (Liquid Preserved) Material
Vertebrates
Website Resources
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Digitisation Guidance
The Atlas of Living Australia has guidance on a wide range of digitisation topics, including digitisation strategy, imaging and using volunteers for digitisation.
BugFlow
Bugflow is a community resource for entomological collection digitisation, and has digitisation workflows covering pre-digitisation curation, project management, label data, imaging and data enhancement
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
GBIF has technical documentation relating to open biodiversity data, including georeferencing and data publication. It has also created a best practice manual for imaging type specimens.
iDigBio
iDigBio has links to digitisation resources, including videos, presentations and training workshop material.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
TDWG hosted a biodiversity informatics workshop on data mobilisation in 2019, and training material from this event is available on GitHub.
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
SPNHC has a wiki which links out to a wide variety of digitisation resources, on topics such as georeferencing, transcription, data standards and data aggregators.