From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old field notebooks

by Andrea Thomer, Gaurav Vaidya, Robert Guralnick, David Bloom, Laura Anne Russell

From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old field notebooks

Andrea Thomer1, Gaurav Vaidya2, Robert Guralnick2, David Bloom3, Laura Russell4

1 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA 2 University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA 3 University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California, 94705, USA 4 University of Kansas, KU Biodiversity Institute, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 606, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA

Corresponding author: David Bloom (dabblepop@gmail.com)

Academic editor: Vladimir Blagoderov | Received 18 April 2011 | Accepted 12 July 2012 | Published 20 July 2012

Citation: Thomer A, Vaidya G, Guralnick R, Bloom D, Russell L (2012) From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old field notebooks. In: Blagoderov V, Smith VS (Ed) No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys 209: 235–253. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3247

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Data resources
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3