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

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 235-253

  Thomer, Andrea ^a   Vaidya, Gaurav ^b   Guralnick, Robert ^b   Bloom, David ^c   Russell, Laura ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Biodiversity; Colorado; Crowd sourcing; Darwin core; Digitization; Field notes; Junius henderson; Natural history; Notebooks; Species occurrence records; Taxonomic referencing; Text mining; Transcription; Wikisource

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864598374     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3247     Document Type: Article

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