Collections Digitization - Highlights
- Specimens/Objects Digitized: 5,666,053
- Images Captured: 5,361,712
- Digitization Projects: 63
The Collections Digitization program of the Digitization Program Office supports Smithsonian museums in their efforts to digitize collections as comprehensively, quickly, and cost-effectively as possible by building end-to-end workflows, creating high speed, high quality digitization processes, and by pairing up the digital surrogates we create with the collections records stored in the Smithsonian's various databases.
Some of our projects:
Digitization of the JPC Archive is Now in Production
After the successful Pilot and Priority One projects, we have started the Production 1A project of the digitization of the JPC Archive. This phase will digitize more than 328,000 reflective and transmissive photographic items.
JPCA Production Project DashboardDigitizing the American Women's History Museum
The Imaging Services team is digitizing collections and archives for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
SAWHM ProjectsDigitization of the National Herbarium Continues
We continue to digitize the Herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History. The project digitizes new accessions to the collection.
Botany Project DashboardA Photoshoot with 26,000 Mussel Lots
We digitized over 26,000 lots, with up to three individuals per lot, adding almost 140,000 images of freshwater mussels - otherwise known as the Mollusca order Unionoida.
Unionoida Project Dashboard