- We can’t wait for the exhibition Time and Navigation which will open in April 3013 at the National Air and Space Museum. The Navigating at sea portion will include the vastly influential US Exploring Expedition (also known as the Wilkes Expedition). [via National Air and Space Museum]
- This is why we love crowd sourcing! Smithsonian Collections Blog featured an unidentified image of a tree and Citizen Scientists jumped to the task of identifying it. [via Smithsonian Collections Blog]
- Speaking of crowd sourcing, iDigBio hosted an Augmenting OCR Hackathon to improve parsing of digitized natural history specimen labels. Hackathon participant Ben W. Brumfield blogged about his experience here. [via Collaborative Manuscript Transcription]
- Want to know what’s new in ecological research? The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) library has some new books on tap. [via Smithsonian Libraries Unbound]
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The Field Book Project is a joint initiative of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History with the goal of creating a Field Book Registry, one online location for field book content.
The Field Book Project is a joint initiative of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History with the goal of creating a Field Book Registry, one online location for field book content.
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