For the past four months, I have had the pleasure of working with the California Academy of Sciences as Information Connections Research Intern on Connecting Content—a project to digitize field books and natural history collections from seven partnering institutions, generate metadata for each, and link these digitized collections to published work in a variety of ...
Here at California Academy of Sciences I work on the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) project in the Botany department. Like Connecting Content, it aims to provide scientific resources and materials to the public through an online platform. In the instance of GPI the materials are botanical type specimens, which are, simply put, the specimen cited ...
The California Academy of Sciences Library is pleased to announce that The Rollo Beck Galapagos Expedition Journal is now accessible online via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The Beck field notes are the first test submission to the Connecting Content field note scanning project. Their successful inclusion into BHL marks many months of planning, effort, and ...
I came into my museum studies program with an interest in digitizing collections. I had volunteered on a project photographing butterflies, which introduced me to the possibilities of improving collections access while preserving fragile specimens. Throughout my classes, sections on digital access always piqued my interest, so when I heard about the opportunity with Connecting ...
The California Academy of Sciences brought in Rachel Sargent as the Fall intern for the IMLS Connecting Content grant. Rachel graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in Biology and is now enrolled in the John F. Kennedy University Museum Studies Program. Her work experience includes managing the neurobiology and microscopy lab at ...
Although my Information Connections Research at the Smithsonian formally concluded at the beginning of August, that is when the real excitement began as I took Connecting Content on the road and presented the project and my particular work on it to a variety of different audiences. First up was the hometown show, a brown bag ...
