Volunteers Needed for Massive Smithsonian Digitization Project Today the Smithsonian launches its Transcription Center website to the public. The website is designed to leverage the power of crowds to help the Smithsonian unlock the content inside thousands of digitized images of documents, such as handwritten Civil War journals, personal letters from famous artists, 100-year-old botany specimen labels and examples of early American currency. The Smithsonian has already produced digital images for millions of objects, specimens and documents in its collection. Many of the digitized documents are handwritten or have text that computers cannot easily decipher.
Web - Introduction Introduction ■ Director's Discourse ■ Tellus Border ■ BT Young Scientist ■ Geoscience Ireland ■ My Internship ■ Photography Challenge ■ INFOMAR ■ Economic Benefits for Ireland and UK ■ Sinkholes in Ireland ■ European Space Expo ■ Earthquake shakes South East ■ Staff News Introduction Welcome to Issue No. 14 of Geology Matters, The Newsletter of the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI). Notes from Nature People have been collecting specimens from the natural world for centuries - minerals, plants, fungi and animals. Today, there are an estimated two billion specimens housed in natural history museums around the world! These biological collections document where species and populations exist now and where they existed decades and centuries before, so they hold irreplaceable information necessary for uncovering the patterns of changes in species distributions and ecosystem composition over time. Scientists use such data and information in order to address key environmental issues we are facing right now, such as the impacts of climate change and how diseases affect wildlife and humans.
INFOMAR - Ireland's Nearshore Seabed Mapping Project NSF Citizen Science DiscoveryBe a (citizen) scientist! A celebration of open science and innovation September 30, 2015 Notes from Nature Natural History has its roots in the ancient world, from Aristotle’s History of Animals to Pliny the Elder’s Natural History. Collection of specimens for “Cabinets of Curiosities” flourished during the Renaissance (many of them contained fantastical faked creatures) and some of the earliest Natural History museums, like the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, were founded. By the 19th century, modern scientific collection had begun and many of today’s Natural History collections originate from this period. Notes from Nature The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin says “Danke schön” – “Thank you” Herbarium and the biodiversity informatics staff at the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin Thanks a lot to the Notes from Nature Community for completing the Amaranthaceae expedition. Your transcriptions are very helpful for the Caryophyllales (an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, etc.) research group at the Berlin Botanical Museum. We’ll include the results into information systems to make them available for further research queries.
The "Herbonautes", the site to help researchers of the world's largest herbarium PLANTES - L'Herbier national français est le plus important du monde. Hébergée par la galerie de Botanique au Jardin des Plantes, sa collection de plantes pressées du monde entier, qui appartiennent au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, n'est pas ouverte au public. En revanche, la collection numérique, faite de 6 millions de spécimens, est visible en ligne. Et ce n'est pas tout. Depuis 2013, le site des Herbonautes permet au grand public de collaborer avec les chercheurs de l'Herbier.
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