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The Smithsonian Institution’s Digitization Program Office wins prize in GBIF 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

By DPO on Wed, 10/17/2018 - 16:28

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat announced today that the Smithsonian Institution’s Digitization Program Office (DPO) was selected by an expert jury as a winner in the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The entry, submitted by DPO Informatics Program Officer Luis J. Villanueva, the GBIF Issues Explorer, won a Second Place award among 23 entries from countries around the world.

DPO Mass Digitization at the Smithsonian Imaging Workflow (Part 2)

By Jessica Warner and Ken Rahaim, DPO on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 12:17

Once we’ve worked out the details for the Physical Workflow to ensure that the collections objects are moved safely and efficiently to and from the digitization work space, we turn our attention to the imaging workflow.

DPO Mass Digitization at the Smithsonian: Physical Workflow

By Jessica Beauchamp and Ken Rahaim, DPO on Tue, 12/29/2015 - 12:35

This blog post is the first in a multi-part series looking in detail at each workflow for Mass Digitization projects managed by the Digitization Program Office’s MD team at the Smithson

Rapid Capture Composited Imagery and the Use of the XYZ Table

By Jon Barrett, Carl Bobrow, Ben Sullivan, Jim Walker, National Air and Space Museum on Wed, 06/04/2014 - 10:40

Over the past year the Collections Department of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) has been developing a multi-image compositing technique, colloquially know as Rapid Capture Composited Imag