Increasing the efficiency of digitization workflows for herbarium specimens

Increasing the efficiency of digitization workflows for herbarium specimens

Through a combination of grants over the last few years, The New York Botanical Garden has been
testing new protocols and tactics for increasing the rate of digitization through combinations of data
collaboration, field book digitization, partial data entry and imaging, and optical character recognition
(OCR) of specimen images. With the launch of the National Science Foundation’s new Advancing Digitization
of Biological Collections program, we hope to move forward with larger, more efficient digitization
projects, capturing data from larger portions of the herbarium at a fraction of the cost and time.