The document discusses the development of a project to connect field book collections across different institutions through metadata standards like EAC, MODS, and NCD. It provides examples of the types of information found in field books and outlines next steps for the project such as testing the ingest process with partners and ongoing development of tools and features. The overall goal is to make field book collections more accessible and bring related materials together.

1. C. Sheffield and R. Russell

2. Examples of field books

3. Examples of field books?

4. And this.

5. Related projects

6. Related Cataloging Practices
MARC
15.4%
No answer Dublin Core
33.3% 10.3%
EAD
12.8%
Specify Local
2.6% Schema
ICMS 17.9%
7.7%
…or not.

7. Information Needs
• Geographical location – 67%
• Environment and habitat descriptions – 41%
• Species information – 33%
• Specimen / museum collection info – 26%
• Narrative or historical information – 15%

8. Existing Standards
• Collection Level: Natural Collections
Description (NCD)
• Item level: Metadata Object Description
Schema (MODS)
• Archival Authority Control: Encoded Archival
Context (EAC)

9. Metadata!
EAC Organization NCD Collection
OrgId: EACO9 CollectionId: NCDC78
Name: Smithsonian Institution, Title: Frederick Coville,
National Museum of Natural History, field books, 1890-1924
Department of Botany Owner: EACO9
Creator: EACP173
Description: The collection consists of
EAC Person Coville's field notes from botanical
collecting and observation efforts in …
PersonId: EACP173
Name: Coville, Frederick
(Frederick Vernon), 1867-1937
Dates: 1867-1937 MODS Item
Biographical history: Frederick Vernon MODSid: MODSI1281
Coville, botanist and blueberry Collection: NCDC78
breeder, was born in New York and Title: Field notes, Death Valley
educated… Expedition, 1891
Dates: 1891.05.10-1891.07.30
EAC Expedition Creator: EACP173
ExpId: EACE0017 Expedition: EACE 0017
Name: Death Valley Expedition Abstract: This item contains narrative
Dates: 1890-1891 notes and lists of botanical specimens
Description: The Death Valley Expedition collected or observed during Coville's
was the first biological survey to … research in Death Valley . …

10. But field books from that expedition
are also in my collections…

11. How will we bring them together?

12. Connecting Content
12

13. Partners

14. Next Steps
• Test ingest process with partners
• Iterate, iterate, iterate
• Open the Registry for additional partners
• Ongoing development of tools and features

15. Project Team
Principal Investigators Project Advisors & Support
Rusty Russell Ricc Ferrante
Anne Van Camp Tammy Peters
Project Staff Sarah Stauderman
Carolyn Sheffield Nora Lockshin
Sonoe Nakasone Kristen Tyree
Lesley Parilla Kira Cherrix
Emily Hunter

16. Funding

17. Thank you
Website:
http://mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/
Blog:
http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/
Flickr:
http://tinyurl.com/fbpflickr
Contact: Carolyn Sheffield, sheffieldc@si.edu