From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old field notebooks

Biological field notebooks are records of lives spent outside in nature. Part diary, part scientific record, field notebooks often contain details required to understand the location and environmental conditions existent during collecting events. Despite their clear value for (and recent use in) glo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrea Thomer, Gaurav Vaidya, Robert Guralnick, David Bloom, Laura Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2012-07-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2909