Collections Digitization - Highlights
Stats as of 29-Aug-2026
Collections Digitization
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 Dashboard
Digitizing 200k Pollinators
The Mass Digi team is starting the digitization of the NMNH Entomology collection of pollinators, including bees, butterflies, flies, and beetles. This conveyor system will digitize thousands of specimens per week and more than 200,000 specimens within a year.
Ento Pollinators Conveyor Dashboard
Digitization 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 Dashboard