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Herbadrop Use Case

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Dugénie edited this page Nov 9, 2017 · 14 revisions

Introduction

Background

For several centuries, Natural History Collection (NHC) institutes (i.e. museums and botanical garden) accross the world have been responsible for preserving the physical copies of herbaria. These herbaria are collections of plants sticked on a sheet with annotations that describe a given specimen. Each herbarium specimen has been collected, carefully prepared and annotated by botanists.

Objectives

The two core objectives of the Herbadrop data pilot are:

  1. long-term preservation of scientific natural heritage: collections of digitalized herbaria are transferred from several European museums and botanical gardens to a TDR.

  2. extraction of written information from these images by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) analysis using intensive computing.

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