Author Archives: Andrea

About Andrea

Andrea is a PhD student in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, and her research interests include data curation, natural history museum work and biodiversity informatics. Last summer she interned at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO; the summer before that, she did neat stuff at the Petrified Forest National Park; and before grad school she dug up Pleistocene megafauana at the La Brea Tar Pits. She wishes there was a shorter way of saying all that.

This week in digitization: The good, the buggy, and the curious

Posted on April 30, 2013

This will be old news to many, but regardless: two big projects related to specimen digitization and biodiversity informatics launched in the past couple weeks.   Quick impressions on both below, focusing on the good, the buggy and a few items … Continue reading →

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Post-Henderson Post

Posted on June 4, 2012

So You Think You Can Digitize had a bit of an unplanned hiatus; turns out that maintaining a blog while its authors take a something like 15+ trips, attend to work/school responsibilities, and write gobs of papers is a bit … Continue reading →

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JHFNP, Post 4.5

Posted on January 23, 2012

A quick mini-post here, to tell of some interesting things: 1) Notebook 1 is DONE.  Fully annotated, and all within 3 days of our last post.  This represents many hours of work and the creation of hundreds of annotations: {{place|…}} … Continue reading →

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