[Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?

[Erica Krimmel]

Hey Carla,

 

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.

 

Much thanks,

Erica 

 

From: carlacic at gmail.com [mailto:carlacic at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Carla Cicero
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:57 PM
To: Erica Krimmel; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Cc: Michelle Koo; Christina Fidler
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?

 

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=AwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=7I1K0xrJzOwwhCxGYvQ-rXQBWDwUs0WF-q2ivT6mHK0&s=YMx0kGyACKFCi4LUYpx-vykETm2x6BB6cJ8sJC-wcnI&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…).

 

Much thanks,

Erica

 

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