The notes from nature tool for unlocking biodiversity records from museum records through citizen science

ZooKeys

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 219-233

  Hill, Andrew ^a   Guralnick, Robert ^b   Smith, Arfon ^c   Sallans, Andrew ^d   Gillespie, Rosemary ^e   Denslow, Michael ^f   Gross, Joyce ^e   Murrell, Zack ^f   Conyers, Tim ^g   Oboyski, Peter ^e   Ball, Joan ^e   Thomer, Andrea ^h   Prys Jones, Robert ^g   de la Torre, Javier ^a   Kociolek, Patrick ^b   Fortson, Lucy ^c  

^a University of Colorado ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Citizen science; Digitization; Museum collections; Natural history museums; Open source; Transcription

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84864621684     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3472     Document Type: Article

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