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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>What about the large collection of note cards regarding stomach contents of different bird species at USGS that needed to be transcribed into a digital format?<div><br></div><div>Casey Tucker</div><div>Adjunct Instructor</div><div>Biology/Environmental Science</div><div>Central Ohio Technical College</div><div>tucker.468@cotc.edu<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">To: nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>From: ellen.paul@verizon.net<br>Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 18:27:43 -0400<br>Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?<br><br>
Dear Erica,<BR>
Do you know what kind of observations they are? Nest watches?
Point counts? Something else?<BR>
There are a couple of projects well underway at the USGS Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center in Laurel MD to transcribe nest cards and
migration records. It is possible that they would want to "adopt"
your researcher's records but even if they don't, he should
consider using their methodology. They scanned the records, put
them on the web, and two volunteers transcribe each record. If
there are mismatches, they can pull that record and check for
errors. This is particularly important with old, hand-written
records.<br>
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Please feel free to have your researcher contact me.<BR>
Ellen<br>
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On 5/19/16 3:43 PM, Erica Krimmel wrote:<br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">The USDA had a Division of Ornithology and
Mammalogy in the late 1800s that recorded bird observations at
different stations (among other things). Has anyone seen any
of these such records already digitized? We have a researcher
interested in historic bird observations who is considering
transcribing our paper copies, but before he does that I
figured I would make sure he isn’t re-doing work, since what
we have in our archives are marked as copies of what the
original observer mailed in to USDA (in 1893…).</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Much thanks,</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Erica</p>
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