FeaturesFour main views: Monitoring of digitisation, browsing, transcribing and administration

User access control manages visibility of views and permitted operations

ISO 2859 standard based acceptance procedure for specimen data

Support for multiple internal and external data sources

Utilizes Java EE, JSF2, PrimeFaces, RDBMS, Darwin Core and file system

DigiWebQuality driven workflow environment fordigitisation of natural history specimens

Tero Mononen, Riitta Tegelberg, Mira Sääskilahti, Markku A. Huttunen, Marko Tähtinen, Hannu Saarenmaa

http://digitarium.fi/

Test projectIn total 168,500 herbarium specimens were imaged

Transcribing started in 2013

Training period was provided for personnel before access to production data

Workflow defined a responsible party for every state of specimen

The route in workflow depended on the difficulty of specimen and experience of transcriber

In acceptance procedure 80 of 1,000 (batch) specimens were verified manually and ≥ 4 flawed specimens caused rejection of whole batch

ResultsPerformance and accuracy improved significantly after two months work

Location was the main cause for rejection in quality check