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A different type of animalNicole KearneyCoordinator, BiodiversityHeritage Library Australia Museum Victoria@nicolekearney
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The world’s largest online repository for biodiversity heritage and archival materials.
BHL Australia
What’s in the box?
Ornithology Department Archives
“Estate of Graham Brown – note books”
Why are field diaries so important?
Underutilized resource
Inaccessible in their current state
• single hard copy• single location• uncatalogued• hand-written (in the field)• historic scripts• unsearchable
Allan McEvey, Macquarie Island, 1957.
Our scientists need this data!
Museum Victoria Grampians BioScan Survey, 2012Image: Heath Warwick / Source: Museum Victoria
19312012
Step 1: create individual records
KE-EMuThe collection management database used by many galleries,
herbaria and museums (including Museum Victoria)
Step 2: create digital copies
A digital version in our database
OCR from a page of Graham Brown’s diary
l>^v-^wAl^ livU*^/) Curiae '^tila'* -u^vttcvi Lsefei cit^:< Lv. 1^ Ol^Vm?iJcw , L>w i^-^Otv^ dS^^iL* ll^^Uk^ M/tTM^li?'^ tvc4fi>r '^^-^ G^WtY^^ uve^v. llCCUvlr]^vv\l^ '^L^>u^ l^t^
You can’t search handwriting
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
DigiVol online transcription portal
Step 3: transcribe & collect the data
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Step 4: extract the transcription
17.
Field diary in MACAW
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Transcription in MACAW
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Step 6: Upload onto Internet Archive
Final destination: BHL
Along with the transcriptions!
But what about the data?
5 x Graham Brown field diaries =
5611 animal sightings
547 mentions of people and organisations
Graham Brown, 1948
Date Species Location09/09/1947 Red Wattle bird Colac, near lake, in flowering gums13/09/1947 Crested Grebes Colac East, end of Church St, mouth
of the creek
13/09/1947 Little Pied Cormorant Colac, perched on the wreck13/09/1947 Mountain Duck Colac East, end of Church St, mouth
of the creek
13/09/1947 Musk Duck Colac, on the lake13/09/1947 Silver Gull Colac, over the lake, opposite
Queen's Avenue
New homes for our field diaries
… in our Scientific Art & Observation Collection.
Final step? Tell everyone!
Thank you for listening
We are indebted to:
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)www.biodiversitylibrary.org
• The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)www.ala.org.au
• Museum Victoria (MV)www.museumvictoria.com.au
• And 70 amazing volunteers!
@nicolekearney