About Osprey

Version 2.11.1

Osprey — DPO Collections Digitization Dashboard

Quality control and progress monitoring for Smithsonian digitization projects

Osprey checks images produced in mass digitization and imaging projects, displays results in a web dashboard, and helps vendors, project managers, and museum units monitor progress and catch problems early. It supports Mass Digitization, Imaging Services, and Informatics workflows across the Collections Digitization program.

Important: Osprey is not a permanent system of record. It provides a convenient way to review digitization products while projects are active. Do not link to specific pages or images—they may be removed without notice.

Digitization Program Office

Osprey is an open-source application developed by the Digitization Program Office. Source code is on GitHub (link is external).

This is a project of the Digitization Program Office, part of the Smithsonian's Office of Digital Transformation.

System components

Osprey Dashboard(link is external)This web application (dashboard and API)
Osprey Worker(link is external)Runs file checks and posts results to the API
Osprey Misc(link is external)Database schema and supporting scripts

Contact

For questions about Collections Digitization or this public dashboard, visit the Digitization Program Office website.

For project-specific progress or file issues, contact the Project Manager listed on the relevant project dashboard.

Special thanks

OCIO for hosting our servers and supporting the infrastructure we use in our projects
The DAMS team for sharing their data
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) silhouette image is from Phylopic (source)