Category Archives: crowdsourcing

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

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

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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Field Notes Challenge Part 4: Help, ‘Cause We Need Somebod(y/ies)

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Co-written once again with Gaurav Vaidya. Over the last week, Gaurav has continued to pull templates out of his hat (leaving rabbit pulling to Rob and his bunnies) and we now have templates for locations and dates.  The syntax for … Continue reading →

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Field Note Challenge Part 2: Veni, Vidi, Wiki

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

SYTYCD would like to welcome guest blog co-author Gaurav Vaidya. A week ago, we told you about our cunning plan to play around with annotating and publishing one  transcribed notebook of Junius Henderson’s field notes. We’ve had two big successes in the last … Continue reading →

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