<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Dakota, </div><div>BugFlow (<a href="https://entcollnet.github.io/BugFlow/">https://entcollnet.github.io/BugFlow/</a>) has a lot of collection digitization workflows shared on the repository. It's primarily insect/arthropod focused ("bug" flow), but I imagine there still may be helpful information for mollusk collections that just needs some modification. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Erika</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>----------<br><div>Erika Tucker, PhD (s<i>he/her/hers</i>)</div><div><a href="https://www.mpm.edu/" target="_blank">Milwaukee Public Museum</a> (MPM) | Community Engagement Projects Manager </div><div><a href="https://www.bon-earth.org/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Outreach Network</a> (BON) | Associate Director<br></div><div>Projects: <a href="http://idigbees.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">iDigBees</a>; <a href="https://bit.ly/TPTiDigBio" target="_blank">Terrestrial Parasite Tracker</a> (TPT); <a href="https://big-bee.net/" target="_blank">Big-Bee</a>; <a href="https://scan-bugs.org/" target="_blank">SCAN</a><br></div><div>ORCiD <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8822-2315" target="_blank">0000-0002-8822-2315</a></div><div><i>Entomologist & Museum Collection Specialist</i><br></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Check it out!<b> </b></div><div><b> </b><b><a href="http://bug.news/" target="_blank"><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Bug.News</font></a> </b>(blog) </div><div> <a href="https://idigbees.org/resources/" target="_blank">iDigBees Resources</a></div><div> <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Digitizing_collections_to_trace_parasite-host_associations_and_predict_the_spread_of_vector-borne_disease" target="_blank">TPT Resources & Products</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://www.bon-earth.org/products-resources" target="_blank">BON Entomological Resources</a> (supplies, DIY, etc.)</div><div> <a href="https://entcollnet.github.io/BugFlow/" target="_blank">BugFlow</a> (digitization workflows)</div><div> <a href="https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/how-to" target="_blank">GloBI How-To</a> (help page)</div><div> <a href="https://scan-bugs.org/" target="_blank">SCAN</a> (Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network - arthropod database)<br></div><div> <a href="https://www.earthengypsydesigns.com/category/bugs" target="_blank"><b>Bug Jewelry</b></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (made with real bugs)</span></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM Dakota Rowsey <<a href="mailto:drowsey@smm.org">drowsey@smm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello NHCOLLers,</div><div><br></div><div>I am getting ready to develop a workflow for digitizing our museum's collection of mollusks from Minnesota, which mainly consists of freshwater mussels and land and freshwater snails. My taxonomic expertise is not in mollusks (though I'm a big fan of unionids) and so I'm interested to learn from other collection managers of mollusks who have digitized their own collections. What worked well for you and what would you recommend doing differently? I'm also interested in what kinds of digitized information would be of interest to malacologists that may not be readily available from specimen tags and field notes but would nevertheless be feasible to capture quickly, considering we will be handling our entire collection of shells and fluid specimens - I'm thinking trait data of some kind. Since we're starting mostly from scratch, I want to use this opportunity as best I can.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any advice you may have!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Dakota</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><b>Dakota M. Rowsey, Ph.D. </b>(he/his)</div><div>Biology Collections Manager</div><div>Science Museum of Minnesota<div><b><img width="200" height="83" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yScQxX__FrhwnwIMCfT2QY7VtFZRZvfaA7TNtW8hHOKit4b8oIHQFEl4v7NqpQgG1-Z9CCutRjXtRO"></b></div></div></div></div></div>
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