Hi Everyone,
As BIS (TDWG) members, you've likely heard of Inselect. This upcoming webinar at iDigBio will give an overview of the software, how it can be integrated into existing digitization workflows and a discussion of areas for development and possible future applications. The talk will be of interest to curators, digitizers and IT staff. Inselect is under active development at the NHM. We are very excited to engage with the community and receive feedback and ideas.
*Webinar*: Insights into Inselect Software: automating image processing, barcode reading, and validation of user-defined data
*WEBINAR Announcement and Details https*://www.idigbio.org/content/insights-inselect-software-automating-image-processing-barcode-reading-and-validation-user
*When*: Tuesday 29th March, 11 am EDT (4pm BST) *Presenters*: Lawrence Hudson and Ben Price, Natural History Museum, London. *Where*: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt Contact for questions: Lawrence Hudson, Software Developer for Inselect l.hudson AT nhm.ac.uk
The software combines image processing, barcode reading, batch processing and validation of user-defined data to offer a high level of automation. Inselect has been used by curators and digitizers within the Natural History Museum, London, to process in excess of 100,000 specimens so far and is presently being used by several institutions on pinned insects, microscope slides, paleontological specimens, dried sponges and other specimen types.
*Background reading*
PLOS ONE paper on Inselect: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0143402 Home page with source code, issues and releases: https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/inselect You can install it to try it yourself. Download installer software from the *releases* tab
Best, Deb, et al at iDigBio on behalf of the NHM and Inselect From iDigBio: This webinar brought to you by the Inselect developers and the NHM as one outcome of a break-out group at iDigBio Summit V on ideas for scaling up digitization.