Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

The INHS Insect Collection currently exports data from about 1.2 million collection objects representing over 2.7 million specimens to various data aggregators. However, the data has been created piecemeal over the last 30 years from various grant-funded projects, and has numerous quality issues resulting from uneven effort and funding, differences in digitization specialist training effort, and legacy migration issues.

Recently, we have been attempting to solve a number of data quality issues using tools in TaxonWorks, GBIF, and iDigBio. In this talk, we demonstrate improvements in quality using a some of these tools.