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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hey Carla,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s exactly what’s at the back of my mind. We aren’t as far along as MVZ in being ready to provide digital images for transcription of these sort of records, but if this researcher is interested in transcribing from our paper records we definitely want to capture it as bird observation records in Arctos. I need to take a better look at the archive materials he is interested in and at what observation records look like in Arctos, but then I would love to chat more about this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Much thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Erica <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:carlacic@gmail.com">carlacic@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:carlacic@gmail.com">mailto:carlacic@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carla Cicero<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> Erica Krimmel; <a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Michelle Koo; Christina Fidler<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Erica - I don't know anything about those specific observations, but this type of transcription is something that we're very interested in for our own archival collections. We've been collaborating with Ben Brumfield who developed From the Page (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__beta.fromthepage.com&d=AwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=7I1K0xrJzOwwhCxGYvQ-rXQBWDwUs0WF-q2ivT6mHK0&s=YMx0kGyACKFCi4LUYpx-vykETm2x6BB6cJ8sJC-wcnI&e=">http://beta.fromthepage.com</a>). Our eventual goal is to capture the bird observations in our field notes (especially historic ones) and export those in a format that can be ingested into Arctos as bird observations. We'd be happy to talk more with you about that if you're interested.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Carla<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Erica Krimmel <<a href="mailto:ekrimmel@naturemuseum.org" target="_blank">ekrimmel@naturemuseum.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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…).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Much thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Erica<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>Erica Krimmel | Assistant Collections Manager </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | <a href="tel:773-755-5118" target="_blank">773-755-5118</a> | <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.naturemuseum.org&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=gd00wGXBqp1FRJjNP_nNOc5n26KliXI6l5E3Wcu_4Rs&s=8Uvlr2jcYv0pZmQQmZ6u9buoURi-cHJgSvt9WO0Eymw&e=" target="_blank">www.naturemuseum.org</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>Museum Collections and Archives, Collections Facility and Office</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>4001 North Ravenswood Avenue, Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"'>The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nhcoll-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">Nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l" target="_blank">http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of<br>Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose<br>mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of<br>natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to<br>society. 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