The machine to digitise entomological collection drawers caused a lot of interest among participants of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) workshop, held at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. It does work nicely, but there is still a lot of room for further developments, further funding pending…

The DScan development is part of the German Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF-D) initiative. GBIF-D is funded by the BMBF – the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.