Collaborative digitization of seed and nursery catalogs by Cornell University, New York Botanical Garden, National Agriculture Library and Missouri Botanical Garden, and crowdsourcing the correction of OCRed text in Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Historic Seed & Nursery Catalogs to Document Gardens & Orchards: Digital See...MartySchlabach
Historic Seed & Nursery Catalogs can be used to identify period- appropriate varieties of vegetables, fruit, flowers and landscape plants when interpreting historical sites. A digital collection of 31,000 catalogs is freely accessible in the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Seed & Nursery Catalog Collection. Plant Information Online can help determine if the variety is available.
Collaborative digitization of seed and nursery catalogs and delivered through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Part of the Purposeful Gaming project, with funding support from IMLS, Cornell University, New York Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology collaborate to digitize content, create a game to crowdsource the correction of inaccurate OCRed text in BHL and crowdsource the transcription of handwritten field notebooks to improved discovery and access via full-text searching
An overview of library types with a description of the Purposeful Gaming research project and the digitization of seed and nursery catalogs, and how research library continue to provide collections and services , but also conduct research and build digital collections.
Lecture. "Open Commons: Spanish Libraries Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge" presented by Dr. José A. Merlo. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Hodges Reading Room, May 30th 2013. Greensboro NC. Dr. Merlo is Professor and Library Services Director at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Spanish facts and open access resources, including key issues and the case study of University of Salamanca, Spain.
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Historic Seed & Nursery Catalogs to Document Gardens & Orchards: Digital See...MartySchlabach
Historic Seed & Nursery Catalogs can be used to identify period- appropriate varieties of vegetables, fruit, flowers and landscape plants when interpreting historical sites. A digital collection of 31,000 catalogs is freely accessible in the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Seed & Nursery Catalog Collection. Plant Information Online can help determine if the variety is available.
Collaborative digitization of seed and nursery catalogs and delivered through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Part of the Purposeful Gaming project, with funding support from IMLS, Cornell University, New York Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology collaborate to digitize content, create a game to crowdsource the correction of inaccurate OCRed text in BHL and crowdsource the transcription of handwritten field notebooks to improved discovery and access via full-text searching
An overview of library types with a description of the Purposeful Gaming research project and the digitization of seed and nursery catalogs, and how research library continue to provide collections and services , but also conduct research and build digital collections.
Lecture. "Open Commons: Spanish Libraries Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge" presented by Dr. José A. Merlo. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Hodges Reading Room, May 30th 2013. Greensboro NC. Dr. Merlo is Professor and Library Services Director at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Spanish facts and open access resources, including key issues and the case study of University of Salamanca, Spain.
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Il Telelavoro è una forma di organizzazione e/o di svolgimento dell’attività lavorativa regolarmente svolta fuori dai locali dell’azienda – in ambienti nella disponibilità del lavoratore che spesso coincidono con l’abitazione – che comporta vantaggi tanto per l’azienda quanto per il lavoratore.
Gruppo Ambiente Sicurezza presenta due case history aziendali del progetto “WORK FROM HOME” relative alla messa in sicurezza di oltre 200 Telelavoratori, sparsi su tutto il territorio nazionale, appartenenti ad una multinazionale ed una azienda a carattere nazionale.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. kalfatovic. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
The history of biodiversity through words and picturesTrish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given as part of a conference called Curious Images held at the British Library Dec 18 2014 which brought together researchers and artists to share ideas, techniques and methods they have applied to image collections
Purposeful Gaming, OCR Correction and Seed & Nursery Catalog DigitizationMartySchlabach
An online game will be developed to crowd-source the correction of OCRed content in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Several additional content types will digitized and added to BHL, namely seed lists, seed & nursery catalogs, and hand-written field notebooks.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
Il Telelavoro è una forma di organizzazione e/o di svolgimento dell’attività lavorativa regolarmente svolta fuori dai locali dell’azienda – in ambienti nella disponibilità del lavoratore che spesso coincidono con l’abitazione – che comporta vantaggi tanto per l’azienda quanto per il lavoratore.
Gruppo Ambiente Sicurezza presenta due case history aziendali del progetto “WORK FROM HOME” relative alla messa in sicurezza di oltre 200 Telelavoratori, sparsi su tutto il territorio nazionale, appartenenti ad una multinazionale ed una azienda a carattere nazionale.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. kalfatovic. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
The history of biodiversity through words and picturesTrish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given as part of a conference called Curious Images held at the British Library Dec 18 2014 which brought together researchers and artists to share ideas, techniques and methods they have applied to image collections
Purposeful Gaming, OCR Correction and Seed & Nursery Catalog DigitizationMartySchlabach
An online game will be developed to crowd-source the correction of OCRed content in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Several additional content types will digitized and added to BHL, namely seed lists, seed & nursery catalogs, and hand-written field notebooks.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent ActivitiesMartin Kalfatovic
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent Activities. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference. Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and iDigBio. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 5 June 2017.
Life Sciences Library - 125 Years at The Pennsylvania State Universityssroth
The Life Sciences Library at Penn State is the oldest of the University Libraries. Its name and its campus location have changed over the past 125 years, but its mission has remained to serve students, faculty, and researchers who visit in person or virtually.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Glob...Martin Kalfatovic
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2018 Ohio Natural History Conference. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 24 February 2018.
19th Century American Woven Coverlets: An Introduction and Notes on Some Loca...MartySchlabach
An introduction to 19th American woven coverlet, followed by an overview of two coverlet weavers in Farmerville, NY (now Interlaken). Presented by Marty Schlabach to the Finger Lakes Fiber Guild November 7, 2021.
Evolution of an Agricultural Tool: Chicken Waterers from the 19th Century to ...MartySchlabach
Chicken waterers, sometimes called poultry fountains, have been in use since the mid-19th century, utilizing the same principle of design, but made from several different materials. Presented by Marty Schlabach to the Western New York Antique Tool Collectors Association, Nov 3, 2019.
A Snippet of Agricultural History: Chicken Waterers from the 19th Century to ...MartySchlabach
Chicken waterers, sometimes called poultry fountains, have been in use since the mid-19th century, utilizing the same principle of design, but made from several different materials. Presented by Marty Schlabach to the Interlaken Historical Society Jan 22, 2018.
Chicken Waterers from the 19th Century to the PresentMartySchlabach
Chicken waterers, sometimes called poultry fountains, have been in use since the mid-19th century, utilizing the same principle of design, but made from several different materials. Presented by Marty Schlabach to the Antiques Club of the Finger Lakes May 25, 2017.
In the Background: Coverlets Found in Historic PhotosMartySchlabach
19th century American woven coverlets discovered in the background of photos. Presented by Marty Schlabach at Coverlet College 2018, National Museum of the American Coverlet, Bedford, PA.
Birth and Evolution of a Coverlet EnthusiastMartySchlabach
How I (Marty Schlabach) got into coverlet collecting and then researching 19th century coverlet weavers, followed by an overview of two coverlet weavers in Farmerville, NY (now Interlaken) . Presented by Marty Schlabach at Coverlet College 2021, National Museum of the American Coverlet, Bedford, PA.
Purposeful Gaming Crowdsourcing the Correction of OCRed Text in the Biodivers...MartySchlabach
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of scanned text enables full-text searching. Unfortunately, OCR software does not produce 100% accurate representation of the text, especially in older works with varying fonts, odd layouts and ink bleed-through. Led by Missouri Botanical Garden, and partnering with New York Botanical Garden, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Cornell, an IMLS-funded project has developed 2 games to engage the public in correcting inaccurately OCRed text in BHL.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
1. Free Online Historical
Seed & Nursery Catalog
Collection
Marty Schlabach
Food & Agriculture Librarian
Mann Library
Cornell University
Heirloom Gardening Seminar
Genesee Country Village & Museum
February 21, 2015
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3. Listings of fruit and vegetables
with descriptions
Amateur's Fruit and Ornamental Trees, York, PA 1867
13. Ethel Zoe Bailey
1889-1983
• Curated the seed & nursery collection for 4+
decades, 1930s-1980s
• Daughter of Liberty Hyde Bailey
• Graduated from Smith College 1911
• Assisted her father with many of his plant
collection trips around the world
• Assisted and coauthored with her father many
of his botany and horticultural publications
• Awarded the George Robert White Medal in
1967 from the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society
• Awarded the Smith College Medal in 1970
• Continued curating the seed & nursery catalog
collection until her death in 1983 at the age of
93
• Lived a long and distinguished career in botany
and horticulture
14. How was it used?
1889 Introduction of
Vick’s Irondequoit Melon,
as found in
Annals of Horticulture, by LH Bailey
16. Cornell’s Digitization
• Public Domain items only
• i.e. no longer under copyright
• Pre-1923 American, public domain
• Post-1922 American, need research to determine
• Non-US catalogs
• different copyright laws apply
• Began scanning firms that carried grapevines
• Ethel Bailey indexed catalogs by specie & cultivated variety
(cultivar)
• Then scanned other firms not held by partners
• Funding in part provided by
• Institute for Museum & Library Services (IMLS)
17. Seed & Nursery Catalog
Digital Collection
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
• http://biodiversitylibrary.org
• Collaboration among 20 botanical & natural history libraries
• 157,532 volumes
• 45,568,082 pages
• Seed & Nursery Catalog Collection
• http://biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/seedcatalogs
• A subcollection in BHL
• Currently 13,601 volumes and growing
• 679,776 pages
• Combining NAL, NYBG, and Cornell digitized catalogs
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25. Historical Development of
American Seed & Nursery Catalogs
• Broadside
• Multi-page, text only
• Engraved images added to text
• Hand-colored engravings
• Lithography
• Chromolithography
• Black & White photography
• Color photography
• Today: websites
37. 50+ Rochester Seed & Nursery Firms
• Allen Nursery Co.
• Briggs Bros. & Co.
• Brown Brothers Co.
• Chase Bros. Co.
• Crosman Bros.
• Diamond White Grape Co.
• Ellwanger & Barry
• Green's Nursery Co.
• Hiram Sibley & Co.
• James Vick's Sons
• Joseph Harris Company
38. Thanks to my colleagues at:
Mann Library, Cornell University
(especially Carol Lowe)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden
National Agriculture Library, USDA
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Beautiful images in catalogs of the late 19th century and early 20th
Flowers
Vegetables
Fruits
Perhaps more important to us as gardeners and those of us interested in horticultural history
The descriptions of vegetables, fruits and flowers
Many interests and uses of historic seed and nursery catalogs in addition
illustration & art history, printing history, landscape history,
Add fruit image
Some of you probably remember the legendary Irondequoit Muskmelon
Apparently developed and grown in the Irondequoit area
And marketed in Rochester
Great flavor, but didn’t ship well
Soon lost favor among growers, as farms became more distant from city markets
Note the price, compared to other varieties!
It must have been special and in high demand.
John A. Salzer Seed Co catalog, 1897
Example of exaggerated fruit and vegetable images
Postcard of exaggerated fruit
There were also trade cards
Collaborative Digitization effort is under way
Probably 3 of the 4 or 5 largest catalog collections in the US
Anderson Horticultural Library, University of Minnesota
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
50,000+ catalogs
Have digitized several thousand
http://libguides.nybg.org/nurseryandseedcatalogs
Digitization supported in part by
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Institution for Museum & Library Services (IMLS)
200,000+ catalogs, American and foreign
Have digitized 10,000+ American catalogs
Collection can be found at archive.org (Internet Archive)
Cornell’s collection is part of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium
the plant specimen collection
founded by Liberty Hyde Bailey, noted botanist and horticulturist
Ethel Zoe Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection
named after Ethel Zoe Bailey (photo?)
daughter of Liberty Hyde Bailey
she was long time curator of the collection
136,000+ catalogs
earliest 1793 broadside from Prince Nursery
Massive card catalog of thousands of 3x5 cards indexing the cultivars in American and non-American catalogs
Why was a seed and nursery catalog collection compiled?
How was it used?
The bulk of the collection is stored in Mann Library, Special Collections
The term ‘cultivar’ was coined by LH Bailey
Note link to ‘Collection’
Can down load selected pages or whole catalog
Rochester played a large role in these improvements
Printing industry and seed & nursery industry
Example of multi-page all text catalog
1827, Boston
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/80187#/summary
Chase Brothers, Rochester, NY 1891
A. Currie & Co, 1923
More than just seed and plants
Helps in researching my personal chicken waterer collection
Rochester got it’s start as The Flour City
The growth of the seed and nursery industries
Changed to The Flower City
We are fortunate to have such a rich heritage
Rochester and the surrounding area
