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Key to identify the appropriate digitization technique and the accompanying workflow and data pipeline (D7.2.)

This form will guide you through the process of deciding which digitisation technique is the best suited to meet the request of the Digitisation on Demand (DoD). It can also be used to browse through the options of currently used digitisation techniques for Natural History Collections. At the moment two handbooks have been published regarding these digitisation techniques which provide more basic information:

  • Keklikoglou, K., Faulwetter, S., Chatzinikolaou, E., Wils, P., Brecko, J., Kvaček, J., Metscher, B., & Arvanitidis, C. (2019). Micro-computed tomography for natural history specimens: a handbook of best practice protocols. European Journal of Taxonomy, (522). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.522

  • Brecko, J., & Mathys, A. (2020). Handbook of best practice and standards for 2D+ and 3D imaging of natural history collections. European Journal of Taxonomy, (623). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.623
 

The collection or specimen has to be digitised in:

 
2D/2D+
 

 
3D
 

 
At this point it is more important to know the digitisation pipeline of a specimen independant of the used digitisation technique.