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Assessing record quality and completeness in geoscience collections
Element-level views of MIDS information elements are more useful than raw scores for targeting data improvement in large geoscience collections.
Adam Mansur ↗
Closing Gaps in Specimen Metadata: A Collaborative Annotation and Feedback Platform for Natural History Collections
A national collaborative annotation platform with AI-assisted transcription can close metadata gaps across many Taiwanese collections.
Szu-Hsien Lee ↗
How Darwin Core enables harmonizing Biodiversity Data via the OSCA Consortium
A shared Darwin Core-based cloud pipeline lets 15 Austrian institutions of very different IT capacity publish harmonised specimen data.
Cristian-Dan Bara ↗
How is digitisation doing? Monitoring the increase in digitised collections using MIDS
MIDS can monitor global digitisation progress, and GBIF data show completeness improving unevenly and sometimes going backwards.
Elspeth Haston ↗
Session discussion: mineralogy extension and MIDS geology rules
Geology collections now have concrete standards moments to engage with: the mineralogy extension ratification and the MIDS public review.
Ben Norton, Adam Mansur ↗
Understanding geological specimen use for effective digitisation strategies
Evidence from inquiries, loans and publications shows geological specimens have diverse, sometimes unexpected uses, which should shape which data are digitised first.
Rachel Walcott, Adam Mansur ↗
Drawers in the dark harboring data that could spark - finding the sweet spot in collection digitization and mobilizing metadata from museum's collections
Plan digitisation for the easy 95%, capture a minimal dataset, and decide when good enough beats perfection.
Nora Lentge-Maaß ↗