Showing posts with label Global Plants Initiative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Plants Initiative. Show all posts
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Global Plants Initiative Meeting - Panama 2013
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Fifth Annual Global Plants Initiative Meeting - April 2012 - Madrid
I have just returned from the Fifth Annual Global Plants Initiative Meeting in Madrid Spain. In the coming weeks, I will include some observations from the conference as well as a page of photos. In the meantime, here is the view from the terrace at the Palacio de Cibeles.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Global Plants Initiative - JSTOR
As part of the Global Plants Initiative, The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is submitting high resolution scans of type specimens to JSTOR.
These scans are made with Epson 10000 scanners and create images that are about 200MB a piece. In addition to sending these images to Jstor, we are keeping copies of them ourselves. We currently have about 80,000 images stored on our servers. That takes up about 15 TB of space.
I am considering converting these TIFF images to DNG. I estimate that it would allow me to recover about 7.5 TB of server space. I have to look to see if others have converted TIFFs to DNG to see if this is a wise course.
(Wise or not, I will probably do it because I need the space and the TIFFs are already being stored by Jstor)
These scans are made with Epson 10000 scanners and create images that are about 200MB a piece. In addition to sending these images to Jstor, we are keeping copies of them ourselves. We currently have about 80,000 images stored on our servers. That takes up about 15 TB of space.
I am considering converting these TIFF images to DNG. I estimate that it would allow me to recover about 7.5 TB of server space. I have to look to see if others have converted TIFFs to DNG to see if this is a wise course.
(Wise or not, I will probably do it because I need the space and the TIFFs are already being stored by Jstor)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
70 Megapixel Image Online - Zoom.it
The New York Botanical Garden is a contributing partner in the Global Plants Initiative. So far, NYBG has produced close to 80,000 high resolution scans of specimens.
Our current challenge is how to present these scans on our own website. The majority of the images in the Virtual Herbarium are produced with Canon digital cameras whihc produce 8MB Jpegs.
The GPI scanned images are close to 70 megapixels. As Tiff files, they are over 180 MB. Even if they are saved as full size Jpegs, they are still close to 15MB.
Our current image viewer is sufficient for showing Tiffs of this size, but the viewer software is no longer supported (oh yeah, and it's Flash based so iProducts don't show our images). We will either be faced with down-sampling the images, which would reduce the magnification, or finding a new viewer.
Stumbling around the internet, I found zoom.it, which is a cool Microsoft (oxymoron?) Silverlight viewer. Click the specimen below to see an amazing full size image.
Our current challenge is how to present these scans on our own website. The majority of the images in the Virtual Herbarium are produced with Canon digital cameras whihc produce 8MB Jpegs.
The GPI scanned images are close to 70 megapixels. As Tiff files, they are over 180 MB. Even if they are saved as full size Jpegs, they are still close to 15MB.
Our current image viewer is sufficient for showing Tiffs of this size, but the viewer software is no longer supported (oh yeah, and it's Flash based so iProducts don't show our images). We will either be faced with down-sampling the images, which would reduce the magnification, or finding a new viewer.
Stumbling around the internet, I found zoom.it, which is a cool Microsoft (oxymoron?) Silverlight viewer. Click the specimen below to see an amazing full size image.
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