[Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?

[Carla Cicero]

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 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__beta.fromthepage.com&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=RjjxpHvpORpzxt1gKhvM1j1cVLCNO7pN9s4rv6mBe_g&s=Fs1MBQbbGq5eUDd5VjZZ2yITVE8ozvXPbEdsVTMEZ_Y&e= ). 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.

Best,
Carla

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Erica Krimmel <ekrimmel at naturemuseum.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> 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…).
>
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> Much thanks,
>
> Erica
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