Dr Peter Thrall, our speaker on Thursday 30 March, will focus on digitisation projects and the added value they bring to biological specimen collections.
Peter is CSIRO Group Leader for Digitisation & Informatics, and oversees digital assets at the National Research Collections Australia. CSIRO’s biological collections are aiming to significantly accelerate the creation of digital assets for use in research from its 15 million specimens. Amongst these projects, the Australian National Herbarium in Canberra has been imaging nearly a million plant specimens, using the automated Picturae system.
To accelerate this work further they are looking at emerging technologies to assist with automating the imaging of collections. The digitisation workflows and imaging pipelines are planned with collection activities to complement and benefit from the move to a new collection facility, and they are in the process of improving the integration of this critical digital infrastructure.
The talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette on 30 March at 12:30pm. The booking link for this talk is https://www.trybooking.com/CELUV.
