How digitisate biodiversity collections? This diagram shows the digitisation workflow used in the BOS Arthropod Collection (Department of Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, University of Oviedo, Spain). You can learn more about it in the presentation http://www.slideshare.net/antonio_tb/iberian-odonata-distribution-bos-arthropod-collection and in our article in ZooKeys journal (which published the workflow): Torralba-Burrial A, Ocharan FJ (2013) Iberian Odonata distribution: data of the BOS Arthropod Collection (University of Oviedo, Spain). ZooKeys 306: 37–58. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.306.5289 If you use the workflow, please cite the article.

1. Digitisation of biodiversity collections:
BOS Arthropod Collection Workflow
Specimens from the Collection
Preparation & preservation
(deparasitation, extension,
pinned, put in envelopment…)
No
Preservation
status ok?
Yes
No
Identification
specimen
Yes
Identification
label present?
Review
identification
Digitisation of biodiversity data
specimen code, identification(s), det.,
locality, date, habitat, leg., sex,
biological phase, observations
ZOORBAR
Retrospective georeferencing
labels/primary
publications
georeferenced?
No
Digital cartography & gazetteer
Yes
Complete locality data:
coordinates, altitude, uncertainty
radius, municipality
Export data:
Fix data
DarwinCorev1.2
Data quality control
DARWIN_TEST
Geographic data:
Taxonomic data:
Other data:
coordinates format
provinces in countries
countries/provinces bounding-box
thesaurus
ASCII anomalous characters
det./leg. date coherence
No
All OK?
Yes
Generalise
sensitive species
data
Generate metadata
DarwinCore Archive
Dataset release
Local GBIF IPT
GBIF metadata
repository
Collection website
Datapaper
Torralba-Burrial & Ocharan 2013. ZooKeys 306: 37-58