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Project element Leader(s) Lead participant Assigned people Participant Description Deadline Status
Automatic metadata capture Task 4.1.2

  1. David Harris

 RBGE
  1. Dr Vince Smith
  2. Dr Jose Becerra
  3. Petr Daneš
  4. Kamil Zágoršek
  5. Jiřina Dašková
  6. Jiří Kvaček
  8. Wouter Dekoninck
  9. Marleen De Ceukelaire
  10. Patrick Semal
  11. Miklós Rajczy
  12. Dominik Röpert
  13. Anton Güntsch
  14. Marc Pignal
  15. Dr Elspeth Haston
  16. Dr David Harris
  17. Anna Saltmarsh

  1. BGBM
  2. CSIC
  3. HNHM
  4. MfN
  5. MNHN
  6. MRAC
  7. NHM
  8. NMP
  9. RBGK
  10. RBINS

Automatic metadata capture
 

Develop software that will automatically identify properties of an image. These data “facets” will be automatically
captured without human intervention and provide categories of information that allow Users to easily search and
browse virtual collections more effectively.

Specimen label data will be subjected to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to extract the text string
and research methods to improve the accuracy of OCR use on handwritten labels. OCR-extracted text collected
from handwritten labels will need to be subject to further processing and validation, such as via crowdsourcing
methodologies (objective 2).

 		Mon, 2015-08-31 (All day) In progress
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith