02.01 Interview Questions

Sharing

• What are your primary reasons for sharing CT scans of fossils?

• Collaborative research landscape
• International landscape
• Good to have to share and archive.
• You don't want data to be in each persons hard drive.
• Replication is such a big aspect of science
• Losing original data no one can confirm the findings
• Infrastructure to hold all these CT scans

• RAW Image Stacks Primary

• STL Reconstructions (most important) to see anatomical structures
• Don't want it to be public until the STL are vetted

• How are you sharing right now, and with who?

• Currently using Dropbox to share
• Make available to the public

• What is most valuable to you? 3D scans? Metadata?
• Who would be using or accessing this tool, and what are their different roles?
• Internal
• Public

Searching

• Why do you need to search CT scans of fossils?

• Collaborative process

• How do you search? By which category? Metadata?

• by species name
  • which have multiple entries
  • further filtering based on institution, date
  • like digimorph
• each folder will have 9 or 10 specimens
• folder named (taxonomic) + Specimen Number
  • stacks of images
  • VGL files
  • STL
  • Videos of the specimen

• What are some common problems you've faced with accessing and searching scans?

• Inconsistent data

Organization

• What kind of information are you uploading? *.pca file? All the tiffs?
• What do the data requirement variables mean?
• How are all of your files organized currently?
• How do you see this being used in the future? Standards

Step 1: Scanning Image Stacks

• VG Studio
• use TIFF stack to create 3D space Step 2: Export
• STL file Step 3:

• How big are the files
• 1GB-10GB (rare)