**MOBILISE Workshop: Image capture standards and guidelines**
May 18-19, 2022, Crete
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Goal: To agree a set of principles which would form part of the standards and guidelines for the image capture part of digitisation
Participants: 20-30 (including MC members)
Venue: Natural History Museum Crete as part of the MOBILISE final event
**Aim & Scope**
The workshop will bring together people who are working directly or indirectly on specimen images. The activity of the workshop will be based on the results of a survey about image practices in natural science collections. The aims of the workshop are:
- to collaborate to find recommendations for some of the challenges
being faced by collections which have been identified in the survey
and
- to agree a set of principles which would form part of the
standards and guidelines for the image capture part of digitisation.
Technology and methods for specimen image capture are diverse and changing fast. The workshop will therefore focus on the imaging standards and guidelines relating to the file format, quality, image content and metadata rather than image capture equipment. A set of imaging standards and guidelines should then enable users to select equipment and processes which will result in images which conform to recommended standards.
The workshop will build on work that has been carried out in TDWG, CETAF, SYNTHESYS+ and DiSSCo Prepare.
Expected outcomes
- A set of principles which would form part of the standards and guidelines for the image capture part of digitisation. These principles would comprise either an existing standard or would be an agreement to collaborate on a standard currently being developed.
- Recommendations for some of the challenges being faced by collections which have been identified in the survey
**Draft Agenda**
Wednesday, 18th of May, 16:00 to 20:00 (break 17:30-18:00)
- 16:00 - 16:20: Welcome and Introductions
- 16:20 - 16:50: Presentation on the preliminary results of the survey
- 16:50 - 17:20: 3 short case study presentations
- 17:20 - 17:30: Q & A
- 17:30 - 18:00: Break
- 18:00 - 20:00: Discussion
Thursday, 19th of May, 09:30 to 13:00 (break 11:00-11:30)
- 09:30 - 09:50: Review
- 09:50 - 11:00: Discussion (possible breakout groups)
- 11:00 - 11:30: Break
- 11:30 - 12:40: Discussion
- 12:40 - 13:00: Conclusion
