[Nhcoll-l] Seeking recommendations for mollusk specimen digitization workflows

[Dakota Rowsey]

Hello NHCOLLers,

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.

Thanks for any advice you may have!

Sincerely,
Dakota

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*Dakota M. Rowsey, Ph.D. *(he/his)
Biology Collections Manager
Science Museum of Minnesota
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