Automatic information extraction from museum specimen labels | the story behind the paper

Automatic information extraction from museum specimen labels | the story behind the paper

From Ecology Podcast by Ecology Podcast

February 11, 2026 · 28 min

About this episode

Margot Belot discusses her article on automating the extraction of information from museum specimen labels.

In this episode, Methods in Ecology and Evolution author Margot Belot talks to publishing assistant Hannah about her article 'High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline' Margot's article introduces a tool that can be used to automatically real the labels of museum specimens, helping to catalogue and digitise their vast collections Read the full article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70235 And a blog post about the work: https://methodsblog.com/2026/02/10/from-trowels-to-tensorflow-bridging-the-gap-between-ancient-past-and-digital-future/

People in this episode

Host: Hannah

Guest: Margot Belot

Topics covered

  • information extraction
  • museum specimens
  • digitization
  • entomological collections
  • semi-automated pipeline

Keywords

  • museum specimens
  • information extraction
  • digitization
  • entomology
  • semi-automated pipeline

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