Specimen and record annotation

Annotating specimen and occurrence records by people and machines (e.g. machine annotation services), and validating annotations.

8 talks & discussions

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talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL A

Are plant image datasets ready for AI-enabled community assessment? A systematic review of bias, representativeness and annotation quality

Current plant image datasets are not yet ready for AI-enabled ecological monitoring, especially for spatially explicit tasks and annotation quality.

Yuchen Zhao ↗

talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL B

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 ↗

talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL B

Closing the Loop: The DiSSCo Annotation Validation Framework for Trustworthy Data Round-Tripping

DiSSCo proposes impact-based, layered validation so trusted annotations are promoted automatically and only high-impact ones need expert review.

Wouter Addink ↗

talk · Tuesday 22 September · ODIN

GBIF Rule Based Annotations

Simple, scoped negative-range rules let non-experts flag suspicious GBIF occurrences persistently, including future records.

John Waller ↗

talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL B

Robots Rapidly Writing Records: Machine Annotations at Scale with DiSSCo

DiSSCo can now run adapted machine annotation services over whole datasets, pointing to an image-to-verified-data digitisation pipeline.

Soulaine Theocharides ↗

talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL A

The WildLIVE Portal: Towards Scalable Wildlife Monitoring through the Integration of Citizen Science and Human-in-the-Loop AI Workflows

WildLIVE combines a model registry, provenance-tracked human verification and FAIR publication to move camera trap data from raw images to publishable data.

Rajapreethi Rajendran ↗

talk · Thursday 24 September · SAL A

Accelerating specimen identification through Virtual Collections while promoting collaboration

Virtual reference collections with DOIs let experts identify and curate dispersed digital specimens remotely instead of shipping material or travelling.

Melanie de Leeuw ↗

talk · Friday 25 September · SAL A

Curation through citation: using AI and a knowledge graph to curate DNA barcodes

Linking barcodes, specimens and literature in a knowledge graph could fix many BOLD records, if we can reliably extract the connecting codes from papers.

Roderic Page ↗