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What gets linked to global unique identifiers (GUIDs) in natural history collections digitization?

Co-written with David Bloom. For as long as explorers have been collecting specimens and bringing them back to museums, collection managers and museum staff have been assigning unique (well, more or less unique, with a margin for human error) numbers … Continue reading

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Where do the digital humanities and eScience intersect? — Crosspost with VertNet

This special post was co-written with David Bloom, VertNet Coordinator and crossposted (with some minor mods) at the Vertnet Blog.   First and foremost, digitization of natural history collections and tools to make these digitized records available, such as VertNet, support … Continue reading

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Zombies versus Unicorns at TDWG (or, a recap of citizen science talks)

So You Think You Can Digitize was in the Big Easy for TDWG 2011 last week. Summarizing the whole meeting is best left for friends Nico and Gaurav, who have longer attention spans than us. Nor should you miss the … Continue reading

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