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Figure 1 from: Greeff M, Caspers M, Kalkman V, Willemse L, Sunderland BD, Bánki O, Hogeweg L (2022) Sharing taxonomic expertise between natural history collections using image recognition. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e79187. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e79187
Figure 1 In the Central Library of Algorithms, natural history collection staff will select algorithms (feature extractors, models, etc.) that are most appropriate for the identification of their target organisms and add them to the workbench. The current figure shows a mock-up.
Figure 6 from: Greeff M, Caspers M, Kalkman V, Willemse L, Sunderland BD, Bánki O, Hogeweg L (2022) Sharing taxonomic expertise between natural history collections using image recognition. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e79187. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e79187
Figure 6 Mock-up of an interface for automated taxon identification. Naturalis holds over 500.000 specimens of unmounted, unsorted and often unidentified, papered butterflies and moths that were collected mostly in Europe and Asia over the past 200 years. In early 2016, Naturalis embarked on a 10-year-project to digitally identify all these specimens with the help of dedicated volunteers (Caspers et al. 2019). Specimens are unpacked, photographed, had their label data registered and then repacked, still unmounted, for long-term storage. Specimen images were then dragged and dropped into a web-based interface to get a near-instant response with multiple predictions about the taxonomic identity including probability values.
Figure 5 from: Greeff M, Caspers M, Kalkman V, Willemse L, Sunderland BD, Bánki O, Hogeweg L (2022) Sharing taxonomic expertise between natural history collections using image recognition. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e79187. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e79187
Figure 5 Non-expert collection staff easily find and afterwards sort specimens by taxon (line color) and by accuracy of the identification (line type). The insect drawer is from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The current figure shows a mock-up.
Figure 4 from: Greeff M, Caspers M, Kalkman V, Willemse L, Sunderland BD, Bánki O, Hogeweg L (2022) Sharing taxonomic expertise between natural history collections using image recognition. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e79187. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e79187
Figure 4 Algorithms recognize and number individual specimens in a drawer of unsorted items. The insect drawer is from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The current figure shows a mock-up.
Figure 1 from: Sikes DS, Copas K, Hirsch T, Longino JT, Schigel D (2016) On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick. ZooKeys 618: 145-158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.618.9986
Figure 1 - Number of insect records in GBIF.org (triangles) between December 2007 and March 2016, in comparison to all records (circles).
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Egon Köhler, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21517675">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21517675</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Andrea Weeks, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-4541">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-4541</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
FIGURE 12. A–B in Synopsis of the Amphibians of Equatorial Guinea based upon the Authors' Field Work and Spanish Natural History Collections
FIGURE 12. A–B. Werneria cf. mertensiana (Monte Alén National Park, Río Muni). Photos IDlR.
FIGURE 2. A in Synopsis of the Amphibians of Equatorial Guinea based upon the Authors' Field Work and Spanish Natural History Collections
FIGURE 2. A. Asia Rapids, Midyobo, Río Muni. Photo IDlR.; B. Laña River, Río Muni. Photo IDlR.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Oleg Negrobov, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4315998">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4315998</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Georg Volkens, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q75245">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q75245</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Figureȱ1.ȱSkullȱofȱtheȱunidentifiedȱNHMUKȱskeletonȱinȱdorsalȱandȱlateralȱviews.ȱZFC:ȱcraniofacialȱflexionȱ zone; PrPO: proc. postorbitalis; PrZ: proc. zygomaticus (Harry Taylor, © Natural History Museum, London) in The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring
Figureȱ1.ȱSkullȱofȱtheȱunidentifiedȱNHMUKȱskeletonȱinȱdorsalȱandȱlateralȱviews.ȱZFC:ȱcraniofacialȱflexionȱ zone; PrPO: proc. postorbitalis; PrZ: proc. zygomaticus (Harry Taylor, © Natural History Museum, London)
Figureȱ 2.ȱ Graphȱ plottingȱ skullȱ max.ȱ widthȱ againstȱ totalȱ lengthȱ (billȱ tipȱ toȱ rearȱ ofȱ skull)ȱ forȱ skinsȱ ofȱ threeȱ species of Campephilus woodpecker in the NHMUK collection. Also shown are analogous measurements fromȱ theȱ unidentifiedȱ NHMUKȱ skeleton,ȱ forȱ whichȱ aȱ correctionȱ factorȱ upwardsȱ ofȱ 17.28%ȱ hasȱ beenȱ madeȱ to total skull length, to account for its missing rhamphotheca (see text for explanation), thereby making its measurements directly comparable with the others. in The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring
Figureȱ 2.ȱ Graphȱ plottingȱ skullȱ max.ȱ widthȱ againstȱ totalȱ lengthȱ (billȱ tipȱ toȱ rearȱ ofȱ skull)ȱ forȱ skinsȱ ofȱ threeȱ species of Campephilus woodpecker in the NHMUK collection. Also shown are analogous measurements fromȱ theȱ unidentifiedȱ NHMUKȱ skeleton,ȱ forȱ whichȱ aȱ correctionȱ factorȱ upwardsȱ ofȱ 17.28%ȱ hasȱ beenȱ madeȱ to total skull length, to account for its missing rhamphotheca (see text for explanation), thereby making its measurements directly comparable with the others.
FIGURE 5 in Anthropologically introduced biases in natural history collections, with a case study on the invertebrate paleontology collections from the middle Cambrian Spence Shale Lagerstätte
FIGURE 5. Composition of the Spence Shale fauna by number of genera, comparing the most recent faunal list based on Kimmig et al., 2019; and results from the PBDB. Genera in the PBDB not present on the most recent list are colored in red. The proportion of genera from each taxonomic group is expressed as a percentage above each count.
FIGURE 2 in Anthropologically introduced biases in natural history collections, with a case study on the invertebrate paleontology collections from the middle Cambrian Spence Shale Lagerstätte
FIGURE 2. Location of the Spence Shale A. Location in the western United States. B. Topographic relief showing the main mountain ranges and collecting localities. The Wasatch Range contains the High Creek and Blacksmith Fork localities, and the Bear River Range contains Emigration Canyon, Oneida and the type locality Spence Gulch. C. Enlargement of the Wellsville Mountain Range (MH=Miners Hollow, CFC=Calls Fort Canyon, DC=Donation Canyon, CC=Cataract Canyon, AC=Antimony Canyon, HC=Hansen Canyon). Modified from Whitaker et al., 2020.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Manuel Laínz, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5993446">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5993446</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Théophile Canut, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127686303">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127686303</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Camillo Sbarbaro, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q585401">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q585401</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Oscar Ascuntar-Osnas, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8621-037X">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8621-037X</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Émile Burnat, <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3588389">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3588389</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
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