New Video: The Impact of Digitizing the Smithsonian’s Botany Specimen Collection of 3.5 Million Specimens
Here’s a new video from the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office.
Description:
Given its scale and diversity, the Smithsonian’s collection of 154 million items presents a unique digitization challenge. This video showcases a conveyor belt driven imaging system digitizing up to 3.5 million specimens from the botany collections at the National Museum of Natural History at a rate of almost 3/4 million specimens per year!
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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