scholarly journals A cost analysis of transcription systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Walton ◽  
Laurence Livermore ◽  
Mathias Dillen ◽  
Sofie De Smedt ◽  
Quentin Groom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
History Data ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Natural History Collections

We compare different approaches to transcribing natural history data and summarise the advantages and disadvantages of each approach using six case studies from four different natural history collections. We summarise the main cost considerations when planning a transcription project and discuss the limitations we current have in understanding the costs behind transcription and data quality.

scholarly journals The Transformative Power of Student-Led Natural History Collections Clubs

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheyenne Gerdes ◽  
Kari M Harris ◽  
Mireia Beas-Moix ◽  
Travis D Marsico
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Student Involvement ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Student Organizations ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
Administration Students

Abstract Many colleges and universities maintain herbaria or natural history collections. Natural History Collections Clubs (NHCCs) are registered student organizations (RSOs) capable of improving conditions in these collections, many of which are threatened by a lack of funding, minimal curatorial staff, and inadequate institutional support. Student involvement through NHCCs can improve conditions in collections at academic institutions by providing volunteers, promoting outreach, increasing funding, and generating enthusiasm in administration, students, and the community. In this paper, we explain the need for such organizations, outline the process of establishing an NHCC, and provide case studies from successful organizations. We also describe a developing network for NHCCs and summarize what has been accomplished by these organizations to date.

scholarly journals Crowdsourcing Natural History Archives: Tools for Extracting Transcriptions and Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Mika ◽  
Joseph De Veer ◽  
Constance Rinaldo
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Natural History Collections

This paper is a survey of the landscape of current, successful, and innovative platforms for extracting full text transcriptions and structured data using crowdsourcing as a tool. Archival manuscript items are the key case studies reviewed to develop a set of tools for the Biodiversity Heritage Library for use in enhancing access to and extraction information from items in scientific and natural history collections.

Joseph Sidebotham: vicissitudes of a Victorian collector

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Species Limits ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
As Species ◽  
Scientific World

Joseph Sidebotham (1824–1885) was a Manchester cotton baron whose natural history collections are now in the Manchester Museum. In addition to collecting he suggested a method for identifying and classifying Lepidoptera and investigated variation within species as well as species limits. With three close collaborators, he is credited with discovering many species new to Britain in both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. A suspicion of fraud attaches to these claims. The evidence is not clear-cut in the Lepidoptera, but a possible reason is suggested why Sidebotham, as an amateur in the increasingly professional scientific world, might have engaged in deceit.

The Banksian natural history collections of the Endeavour voyage and their relevance to modern taxonomy

1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
H. B. Carter ◽  
Judith A. Diment ◽  
C. J. Humphries ◽  
Alwyne Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Collections

Correspondence between Adolphe Brongniart and Robert Schomburgk: trading natural history collections for honours

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-336
Author(s):  
PIOTR DASZKIEWICZ ◽  
MICHEL JEGU
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
German Naturalist

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses some correspondence between Robert Schomburgk (1804–1865) and Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876). Four letters survive, containing information about the history of Schomburgk's collection of fishes and plants from British Guiana, and his herbarium specimens from Dominican Republic and southeast Asia. A study of these letters has enabled us to confirm that Schomburgk supplied the collection of fishes from Guiana now in the Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The letters of the German naturalist are an interesting source of information concerning the practice of sale and exchange of natural history collections in the nineteenth century in return for honours.

Museum Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 516-537
Author(s):  
Erica L. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Data Analyses

This chapter describes and discusses the major qualitative research methods used to study museums. These methods include analyses of visual displays and reconstructions; interviews with museum visitors, professionals, and stakeholders; as well as ethnographic fieldwork in museum settings. The chapter explores how these methods can be adapted to the study of exhibits, galleries, programs, and museums as knowledge-generating institutions from a range of case studies conducted by museum practitioners, anthropologists, historians, and other museum studies scholars at a variety of museums. Case studies are drawn from works that examine ethnographic, natural history, art and community museums as well as historic sites. Approaches to research design, data analyses, and writing up are also examined.

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