Imaging Specifications

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• NYBG Herbarium Specimen Imaging Equipment Specifications June 2014
• How to Assemble the Imaging Station
• Centering the Camera
• Solving Auto-focus Problems
• Manually focus lens (video)

Imaging and Post Processing Instructions

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• Imaging Manual
• Herbarium Image Editing Guidelines
• Optimizing Exposure using Micro Nano Color Checker
• Micro Nano Checker – Target Data

Specimen Imaging Basics

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• Imaging Introduction
• Imaging Equipment Selection
• Image Capture
• Image Post Processing with Lightroom
• Image Archive

NYBG Presentations

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• Herbarium Specimen Imaging: Standards and Suggestions
• Herbarium Specimen Digitization: Using the MK Photo-eBox
• Herbarium Specimen Digitization: Image processing with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• NYBG: Standardized Digital Imaging and Archiving Procedures
• Tri-Trophic Digitization: Putting the OCR in Workflow
• Tri-Trophic Digitization Strategies
• OCR implementation in The Caribbean Plants Digitization Project
• NYBG Specimen Digitization Workflow Diagrams (sheets & packets/boxes)
• Tree of Data: Scaling up herbarium specimen record creation at The New York Botanical Garden
• NYBG World Flora Online: Field Image Metadata Requirements
• NYBG World Flora Online: Intro to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• GLOBAL TCN: Digitization Workflow

Publications

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Thiers, B. M., Tulig, M. C., & Watson, K. A. (2016). Digitization of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Brittonia, 68(3), 324–333. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26449470

Tulig, M., Tarnowsky, N., Bevans, M., Kirchgessner, A., & Thiers, B. (2012). Increasing the efficiency of digitization workflows for herbarium specimens. ZooKeys 209: 103-113. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3125

Videos

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