Digitising the Natural History Museum collection with some help from BardecodeFiler

The Natural History Museum in London is currently digitizing its collection, including insect slides with barcodes. BardecodeFiler is used to read the barcode from a photo of the slide and rename the photo to the code for the specimen.

Here’s a link to video that explains the whole process:

https://www.wired.co.uk/video/how-the-natural-history-museum-is-scanning-80-million-dead-creatures

Here’s another link to an article that explains how the process of digitising the insect collection:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408422/