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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collec...
Groom, Quentin; Dillen, Mathias; Addink, Wouter; Ariño, Arturo H H; Bölling, Christian; Bonnet, Pierre; Cecchi, Lorenzo; Ellwood, Elizabeth RTens of millions of images from biological collections have become available online over the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in the capabilities of image analysis technologies, especially those involving machine learning and computer vision. While image analysis has become mainstream in consumer applications, it is still used only on an artisanal basis in the biological collect...
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collec...
Groom, Quentin; Dillen, Mathias; Addink, Wouter; Ariño, Arturo H.; Bölling, Christian; Bonnet, Pierre; Cecchi, Lorenzo; Ellwood, Elizabeth R.Tens of millions of images from biological collections have become available online over the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in the capabilities of image analysis technologies, especially those involving machine learning and computer vision. While image analysis has become mainstream in consumer applications, it is still used only on an artisanal basis in the biological collect...
Promoting scientific literacy in evolution through citizen science
Brandt, Miriam; Groom, Quentin; Magro, Alexandra; Misevic, Dusan; Narraway, Claire L.; Bruckermann, Till; Beniermann, Anna; Børsen, TomEvolutionary understanding is central to biology. It is also an essential prerequisite to understanding and making informed decisions about societal issues such as climate change. Yet, evolution is generally poorly understood by civil society and many misconceptions exist. Citizen science, which has been increasing in popularity as a means to gather new data and promote scientific literacy, is one strategy thro...
Milestone 3.2 - DiSSCo Digital Maturity Self -Assessment Tool - Design Blueprint
Hardy, Helen; Koivunen, Anne; Groom, Quentin; Berger, Frederik; Figueira, Rui; Arsénio, Pedro; Cartaxana, AlexandraThis Milestone 3.2 report for DiSSCo Prepare Work Package 3 Task 3.1 sets out the initial design blueprint for a DiSSCo Digital Maturity Self-Assessment Tool, building on the analyses in the Milestone 3.1 report ‘Improving Digital Capability - Case Studies and Analysis’ (Hardy et al, Dec 2020) and in the Milestone 3.3. Report, including consideration of two existing tools in our sector. This tool is intended to...
Milestone 3.4 - Proposed Content for a DiSSCo Digital Maturity Tool
Hardy, Helen; Koivunen, Anne; Groom, Quentin; Berger, Frederik; Gierce, Peter; Von Mering, Sabine; Figueira, Rui; Arsénio, Pedro; Cartaxana, AlexandraThis report aims to describe the proposed content for a DiSSCo Digital Maturity Self-Assessment Tool, to support development and discussion with potential users. It defines the levels against which users will assess (‘score’) their current and target capability under each category; defines the categories and subcategories that will form the structure of the tool questions / assessment; provides full text exampl...
Milestone 3.3 - DiSSCo Capabilities – Additional Case Studies & Analysis
Hardy, Helen; Koivunen, Anne; Groom, Quentin; Huybrechts, Pieter; Mergen, Patricia; Berger, Frederik; Giere, Peter; Figueira, Rui; Arsénio, PedroThis Milestone 3.3 report for DiSSCo Prepare Work Package 3 Task 3.1 is intended to update and be read alongside the Milestone 3.1 report ‘Improving Digital Capability - Case Studies and Analysis’ (Hardy et al, Dec 2020). It builds on the previous report by addressing additional case study examples of competency frameworks; carrying out further work to examine public sources of competency data about individuals...
Deliverable 3.1 Summary Insights and Recommendations on DiSSCo Competencies and...
Hardy, Helen; Koivunen, Anne; Groom, Quentin; Mergen, Patricia; Berger, Frederik; Giere, Peter; von Mering, Sabine; Figueira, Rui; Arsénio, PedroThis Deliverable report summarises the key insights and recommendations from DiSSCo Prepare Task 3.1, which looked at digital skills, competencies and capabilities across individuals and organisations, as part of the wider Work Package on capacity enhancement. This task looked at insights from previous DiSSCo linked projects; a wide range of competency framework examples; sources of data about individual and or...
Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data rep...
Marcer, Arnald; Haston, Elspeth; Groom, Quentin; Ariño, Arturo H.; Chapman, Arthur D.; Bakken, Torkild; Braun, Paul; Dillen, Mathias; Ernst, MarcusNatural history collections constitute an enormous wealth of information of Life on Earth. It is estimated that over 2 billion specimens are preserved at institutions worldwide, of which less than 10% are accessible via biodiversity data aggregators such as GBIF. Moreover, they are a very important resource for eco-evolutionary research, which greatly depends on knowing the precise location where the specimens ...