Papers by Laurence Livermore
Data Intelligence, 2022
A key limiting factor in organising and using information from physical specimens curated in natu... more A key limiting factor in organising and using information from physical specimens curated in natural science collections is making that information computable, with institutional digitization tending to focus more on imaging the specimens themselves than on efficiently capturing computable data about them. Label data are traditionally manually transcribed today with high cost and low throughput, rendering such a task constrained for many collection-holding institutions at current funding levels. We show how computer vision, optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, named entity recognition and language translation technologies can be implemented into canonical workflow component libraries with findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) characteristics. These libraries are being developed in a cloud- based workflow platform—the ‘Specimen Data Refinery’ (SDR)—founded on Galaxy workflow engine, Common Workflow Language, Research Object Crates (RO-Crate) and ...
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2019
PloS one, 2015
The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific r... more The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. To facilitate these studies and improve access to collections, many organisations are embarking on major programmes of digitization. This requires automated approaches to mass-digitization that support rapid imaging of specimens and associated data capture, in order to process the tens of millions of specimens common to most natural history collections. In this paper we present Inselect-a modular, easy-to-use, cross-platform suite of open-source software tools that supports the semi-automated processing of specimen images generated by natural history digitization programmes. The software is made up of a Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktop application, together with command-line tools that are designed for unattended operation on batches of images. Blending image visualisation algorithms that automatically recognise specimens together with workflows to suppo...
Entomology in Focus, 2015
Free-to-use information services and e-Infrastructures aim to provide a stable, accessible and re... more Free-to-use information services and e-Infrastructures aim to provide a stable, accessible and reliable environment for their communities. As the majority of European e-infrastructures are initially designed, developed and implemented under externally funded projects over a defined time period, post-project sustainability is often a concern. The final transformation from a project to a sustainable service requires careful planning and should be considered throughout initial project development. During this presentation we will demonstrate, using the Scratchpads (http://scratchpads.eu) example, how a community based support model can efficiently compliment or even replace the existence of a systematic mechanism of grant renewal. Inspired and committed communities can efficiently contribute in maintaining a de-centralised support and developing mechanism. Scratchpads case study shows how a globally distributed network of people, with diverse backgrounds, can undertake the effort of su...
Biodiversity data journal, 2014
Biodiversity data journal, 2014
... Correspondence: Corresponding author: Marina Malyutina ([email protected]) [edited-by] Acad... more ... Correspondence: Corresponding author: Marina Malyutina ([email protected]) [edited-by] Academic editor: S. Brix. ... of endopod, with dense row of lateral slender setae, distal seta plumose, length ... Lilljeborg W. (Year: 1864) Bidrag til kännedommen om de inom Sverige och ...
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014
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Papers by Laurence Livermore