
{"id":77334,"date":"2018-11-08T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/sommerfugle-skal-fra-naal-til-net-paa-ku-museum\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T08:15:17","slug":"butterflies-on-needles-to-be-digitised-at-ucph-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/butterflies-on-needles-to-be-digitised-at-ucph-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies on needles to be digitised at UCPH museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butterflies are sensitive to small changes in their environmental conditions. In this way they work as sensitive barometers, revealing the true state of nature.<\/p>\n<p>This is why science is so interested in butterflies, and the <secret text=\"That consists of several museums in the area of natural history\">Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)<\/secret> and the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has a collection of two million of them from the last 250 years.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this time, butterfly collectors have written a small label on each captured butterfly specimen. It worked well at first, when the collection was not big. But now researchers at SNM hope that the digitisation of the collection can tell us more about the changes in our climate and environment.<\/p>\n<h3>If digitised \u2013 a gold mine of information<\/h3>\n<p>The labels have to at least indicate the time and place where the butterfly has been captured, but the butterflies in the collection can reveal much more if you can analyse and comprehend all the information at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have the different species changed their shapes over time? Have they grown larger or smaller? Do their colour patterns change? Has the difference between males and females become greater or smaller over time? Have they changed colour &#8211; as in general when the climate gets warmer there is a tendency for butterflies to go brighter. There is a real potential in this if we can get the information from the labels into a database,&#8221; says Thomas Pape, entomologist and curator at SNM.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><br \/>\nThe Natural History Museum of Denmark has in its possession a veritable gold mine of information that can tell us more about our nature and our climate through 250 years. But this gold mine cannot be exploited before the collection is digitised. To solve this problem, Thomas Pape and his colleague Anders Drud Jordan who is the head of digital production at SNM, have set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/adjordan\/danish-butterflies-and-moths-2020-challenge\">Danish Butterflies and Moths 2020 Challenge<\/a> and put it out on a website.<\/p>\n<h3>Citizen science and crowdsourcing on butterflies<\/h3>\n<p>The idea is that people who are not researchers themselves can sit at home in their living room, read the photographed labels from the butterfly collection, and log this information into a database which has been set up for the purpose. This is called crowdsourcing \u2013 sharing tasks via the internet to those that are interested \u2013 and it is necessary as there are too few researchers to be able to do the registration alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Discover the digitisation process yourself:<\/p>\n<p>At the Geological Museum, which is part of SNM, there is currently an exhibition about the butterflies that gives an insight into the museum&#8217;s extensive collection of butterflies and their significance for us.<\/p>\n<p>In the exhibition guests are invited into a room where they can see the digital processing of the museum&#8217;s butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>Link to the Butterflies exhibition. <a href=\"http:\/\/parkmuseerne.dk\/sommerfugle-naturens-stille-budbringere\/\">Nature&#8217;s quiet messengers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas Pape says that crowdsourcing is a method that is gaining ground in many areas, and that it is often a part of what is called citizen science. It gets anyone who is interested to be involved, but checking the information may be needed, as people can get to write mistakes \u2013 even the scientists who have a lot more experience in interpreting old labels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The website therefore contains a quality control, which means that several users have to write the labels from the butterflies in before they disappear from the website. In addition, we have asked colleagues from around the world, what their experience has been in requiring a two, three or four time match to be able to log a single individual before the database accepts it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<h3>Impossible in practice to get all two million into the database<\/h3>\n<p>So far, the SNM has started up a pilot project where they have put the photos of 4,000 butterflies and their labels into a portal for crowdsourcing projects. So there is a long way to go to reach the two million specimens in the collection. But it is not necessary that all of them get logged into the database, admits Thomas Pape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been a bit naughty when we on previous occasions have written that we want all two million butterflies to be logged. Of course, we would like it, but this would be too time-consuming,&#8221; he says and continues:<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Digitisation in practice<\/p>\n<p><picture data-class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-75970\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1041px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web.jpg 1200w\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 721px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-990x1320.jpg 990w\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 721px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-768x1024.jpg 768w\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 401px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-700x933.jpg 700w\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 401px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-480x640.jpg 480w\"\/><source  srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-290x387.jpg 290w\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-700x933.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-75970\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\"   alt=\"Crowdsourcing-projektet kr\u00e6ver, at hver eneste somemrfugl fotograferes sammen med sin etiket samt en farve- og st\u00f8rrelsesskala\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/picture>The crowdsourcing project requires that every butterfly is photographed with its label, and a colour scale and size scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Keep in mind that each and every specimen in the collection has to be handled in a way that the label first has to be taken off for the photo, and if the project is to make sense, then we also have to attach a new label with a QR code on the butterfly. Then you could ask: How many seconds does this take for a butterfly? When you multiply the number of seconds with two million, you realise just how gigantic this task is,&#8221; says Thomas Pape.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been assisted by the Department of Computer Science, which is developing new and faster ways to be able to digitize the many butterflies, in order to save time.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Pape sees SNM at one point applying for money to get half of the Danish butterflies digitised in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a bit more manageable, and as a national, natural history museum, it makes sense to give priority to the Danish individuals first,&#8221; says Thomas Pape.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two million butterflies in the old scientific collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. 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It is essential that the label has information on it about the time and place it was found."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Digitisation","text":"Hele to millioner sommerfugle \u2013 heraf en million danske \u2013 ligger i de gamle, videnskabelige samlinger p\u00e5 Statens Naturhistoriske Museum. Nu er de ved at blive lagt ind i en database, og n\u00e5r det er gjort, vil de kunne afd\u00e6kke nye m\u00f8nstre i vores natur fra de sidste 250 \u00e5r.","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Butterflies are sensitive to small changes in their environmental conditions. 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Image: Frederiks Wolff"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The Natural History Museum of Denmark has in its possession a veritable gold mine of information that can tell us more about our nature and our climate through 250 years. But this gold mine cannot be exploited before the collection is digitised. To solve this problem, Thomas Pape and his colleague Anders Drud Jordan who is the head of digital production at SNM, have set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/adjordan\/danish-butterflies-and-moths-2020-challenge\">Danish Butterflies and Moths 2020 Challenge<\/a> and put it out on a website.<\/p>\n<h3>Citizen science and crowdsourcing on butterflies<\/h3>\n<p>The idea is that people who are not researchers themselves can sit at home in their living room, read the photographed labels from the butterfly collection, and log this information into a database which has been set up for the purpose. This is called crowdsourcing \u2013 sharing tasks via the internet to those that are interested \u2013 and it is necessary as there are too few researchers to be able to do the registration alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Discover the digitisation process yourself:<\/p>\n<p>At the Geological Museum, which is part of SNM, there is currently an exhibition about the butterflies that gives an insight into the museum&#8217;s extensive collection of butterflies and their significance for us.<\/p>\n<p>In the exhibition guests are invited into a room where they can see the digital processing of the museum&#8217;s butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>Link to the Butterflies exhibition. <a href=\"http:\/\/parkmuseerne.dk\/sommerfugle-naturens-stille-budbringere\/\">Nature&#8217;s quiet messengers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas Pape says that crowdsourcing is a method that is gaining ground in many areas, and that it is often a part of what is called citizen science. It gets anyone who is interested to be involved, but checking the information may be needed, as people can get to write mistakes \u2013 even the scientists who have a lot more experience in interpreting old labels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The website therefore contains a quality control, which means that several users have to write the labels from the butterflies in before they disappear from the website. In addition, we have asked colleagues from around the world, what their experience has been in requiring a two, three or four time match to be able to log a single individual before the database accepts it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<h3>Impossible in practice to get all two million into the database<\/h3>\n<p>So far, the SNM has started up a pilot project where they have put the photos of 4,000 butterflies and their labels into a portal for crowdsourcing projects. So there is a long way to go to reach the two million specimens in the collection. But it is not necessary that all of them get logged into the database, admits Thomas Pape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been a bit naughty when we on previous occasions have written that we want all two million butterflies to be logged. Of course, we would like it, but this would be too time-consuming,&#8221; he says and continues:<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Digitisation in practice<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-75970\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-700x933.jpg\" alt=\"Crowdsourcing-projektet kr\u00e6ver, at hver eneste somemrfugl fotograferes sammen med sin etiket samt en farve- og st\u00f8rrelsesskala\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-290x387.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web-990x1320.jpg 990w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/snmfrederikwolff1web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>The crowdsourcing project requires that every butterfly is photographed with its label, and a colour scale and size scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Keep in mind that each and every specimen in the collection has to be handled in a way that the label first has to be taken off for the photo, and if the project is to make sense, then we also have to attach a new label with a QR code on the butterfly. Then you could ask: How many seconds does this take for a butterfly? When you multiply the number of seconds with two million, you realise just how gigantic this task is,&#8221; says Thomas Pape.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been assisted by the Department of Computer Science, which is developing new and faster ways to be able to digitize the many butterflies, in order to save time.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Pape sees SNM at one point applying for money to get half of the Danish butterflies digitised in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a bit more manageable, and as a national, natural history museum, it makes sense to give priority to the Danish individuals first,&#8221; says Thomas Pape.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":46,"name":"Science","slug":"science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":831,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11488,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/08993birgitterubaekweb-1280x854.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77342,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77334\/revisions\/77342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}