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- 1. Discovering the Artistry inField Books: Intersection of Art and Science
- 2. National Museum ofNatural History & Smithsonian Institution Archives Mission: to create a Field Book Registry, one online location for field book content everywhere.
- 3. Why the Field Book Project? • Field books are not co- located • Access points are inconsistent • Field Books are Hidden Collections!
- 4. What do wedo? + CATALOG + Conserve + Digitize
- 5. What are field books? Unpublished, original record of field events leading up to and including the collection of biological specimens.
- 9. What can thesematerials tell us? + Specimens + Environment + Collecting Event
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- 23. Context All about relationships Linking: • Collections • Items • People • Organizations • Expeditions
- 24. Overview of Description 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 breeder, Collection: NCDC78 was born in New York and educated… Title: Field notes, Death Valley 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 . …
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- 28. Field Book ProjectTeam Rusty Russell Collections & Informatics, Botany Anne Van Camp Director, SI Archives Carolyn Sheffield, Project Manager Sonoe Nakasone, Cataloging Coordinator Lesley Parilla, Cataloger and Graphics Designer Emily Hunter, Cataloger and Social Media Coordinator Ricc Ferrante, Director of Digital Services, SIA Kira Cherrix, Image and Video Digitization Specialist, SIA Tammy Peters, Supervisory Archivist, SIA Sarah Stauderman, Collections Care Manager, SIA Nora Lockshin, Paper Conservator, SIA Janelle Batkin-Hall, Conservation Technician, SIA Kirsten Tyree, Conservation Technician, SIA
Editor's Notes
- #25 I won’t go into too much detail here, but this diagram may do a better job of showing how our descriptive practices can link resources and provide that context. As I mentioned, we describe at the item and collection level. We also use EAC to create authority files for Organizations, people and expeditionsI’m just going to give you the basic concept, which I think is more interesting than the nuts and bolts of it anyway.EAC authority files providebiographical background on field book creators… so we can see where they are from, who they studied with, etc. Also for organizations and expeditions.You can also link these histories… so that we get this kind of historical social network… who was doing what with whom, where and when.Able to link field books related to same person/organization/expedition.
- #29 Thank you!