iSchool Capstone

UW Herbarium: Image Processing & Data Curation

Project tags:

archives & special collections

content & digital asset management

data curation

Project poster

Digitization has enabled inward-facing memory institutions to provide unprecedented access to archived records, contributing to interdisciplinary discoveries and knowledge dissemination. In addition to an extensive specimen archive, the U.W. Herbarium supports a consortial database for digitized records and virtual tools for images. This expansion of institutional responsibilities with static or ad-hoc funding provides the impetus for a digital curation plan which is capable of functioning within the parameters of a modern herbarium. This project examined the modern herbarium’s information landscape yielding 3,000+ processed images, documented workflows, a targeted data curation plan, and two related articles for submission.

Project participants:

Julie Jones

MLIS Online

M Wynn Tranfield

MLIS Online