03 · The apparatus
Misidentification triage
Which sheets do not look like what they are filed as?
- Status
- In development
- Field
- Thin — some prior work
- Who wants it
- Collections managers. The people who actually hold the keys.
Why it matters
Curators do not want an oracle that names species. They want a worklist. Ranking the cabinet by disagreement between the filed name and the image is a far easier problem with far higher adoption.
What it needs
Embeddings and an outlier score. Not a classifier over ten thousand species.
State of the art
Species identification is heavily contested. Framing it as triage is not.
Next head
Undescribed species detection →