Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections

Quentin Groom; Mathias Dillen; Wouter Addink; Arturo Ariño; Christian Bölling; Pierre Bonnet; Lorenzo Cecchi; Elizabeth Ellwood; Rui Figueira; Pierre-Yves Gagnier; Olwen Grace; Anton Güntsch; Helen Hardy; Pieter Huybrechts; Roger Hyam; Alexis Joly; Vamsi Krishna Kommineni; Isabel Larridon; Laurence Livermore; Ricardo Jorge Lopes; Sofie Meeus; Jeremy Miller; Kenzo Milleville; Renato Panda; Marc Pignal; Jorrit Poelen; Blagoj Ristevski; Tim Robertson; Cristina Rufino; Joaquim Santos; Maarten Schermer; Ben Scott; Katja Seltmann; Heliana Teixeira; Maarten Trekels; Jitendra Gaikwad

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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections

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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections

Quentin Groom, Mathias Dillen, Wouter Addink, Arturo Ariño, Christian Bölling, Pierre Bonnet, Lorenzo Cecchi, Elizabeth Ellwood, Rui Figueira, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, …

BDJ Open, Vol.11

30/11/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e109439

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Tens of millions of images from biological collections have become available online in the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in the capabilities of image analysis technologies, especially those involving machine learning and computer vision. Whilst image analysis has become mainstream in consumer applications, it is still only used on an artisanal basis in the biological collections community, largely because the image corpora are dispersed. Yet, there is massive untapped potential for novel applications and research if the images of collection objects could be made accessible as a single corpus. In this paper, we make the case for building infrastructure that could support image analysis of collection objects. We show that such an infrastructure is entirely feasible and well worth the investment.

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Title: Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
Creators - without role: Quentin Groom - Meise Botanic Garden
Mathias Dillen - Meise Botanic Garden
Wouter Addink - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Arturo Ariño - Universidad Publica de Navarra
Christian Bölling - Museum für Naturkunde
Pierre Bonnet - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Lorenzo Cecchi - University of Florence
Elizabeth Ellwood - iDigBio
Rui Figueira - University of Lisbon
Pierre-Yves Gagnier - Direction Générale Déléguée aux Ressources
Olwen Grace - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Anton Güntsch - Freie Universität Berlin
Helen Hardy - Natural History Museum
Pieter Huybrechts - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Roger Hyam - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Alexis Joly - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
Vamsi Krishna Kommineni - Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Isabel Larridon - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Laurence Livermore - Natural History Museum
Ricardo Jorge Lopes - Universidade do Porto
Sofie Meeus - Meise Botanic Garden
Jeremy Miller - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Kenzo Milleville - Internet Technology and Data Science Lab
Renato Panda - Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Marc Pignal - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Jorrit Poelen - Ronin Institute
Blagoj Ristevski - Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Tim Robertson - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Cristina Rufino - University of Coimbra
Joaquim Santos - University of Coimbra
Maarten Schermer - Utrecht University
Ben Scott - Natural History Museum
Katja Seltmann - University of California, Santa Barbara
Heliana Teixeira - University of Aveiro
Maarten Trekels - Meise Botanic Garden
Jitendra Gaikwad - Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Publication Details: BDJ Open, Vol.11
Identifiers: 9937482709311
Academic Unit: Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Mtp - LIRMM; BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-03871553