This blog is the combined effort of a biodiversity scientist and informatician (name: Rob Guralnick) and a data curator (name: Andrea Thomer). The idea of the blog is simple: think screwball comedy meets serious thoughts on digitization. Fast-talking high-trousers of His Girl Friday meets Citizen Kane-level seriousness of Media. Or something.
Our goal is to discuss all aspects digitization of biocollections in a meaningful, interesting way while hopefully maintaining the level of lighthearted (albeit impassioned), carefree cogitation that one would expect from a pair of nerds who can’t stop talking shop even after drinks have been served…
It’s wonderful to see your site. I’m an Information Science student working with the NCSU Insect Museum on a study of one of their digitization efforts. Have you seen NCSU’s Gigpan project? http://www.gigapan.org/profiles/23796/
Hey, that’s really neat! Hadn’t seen that project specifically, but I have heard of other entomology collections using Gigapan imaging on their drawers. Are you working with any other institutions?