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Dispatches, digests and doodles: Exploring the significant properties of field notebooks

Thomer, Andrea K.; Weber, Nicholas M.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/42060

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Title
Dispatches, digests and doodles: Exploring the significant properties of field notebooks
Author(s)
  • Thomer, Andrea K.
  • Weber, Nicholas M.
Contributor(s)
Sheffield, Carolyn
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
  • digital preservation
  • field notes
  • natural history
  • museum informatics
  • digitization
  • digital curation
Abstract
Whether a first-person narrative, a structured observational data source, or simply a diary of doodles, field notebooks are the material instantiation of most site-based social and natural sciences. In this poster, we present preliminary work that explores the significant properties of field notebooks across three diverse disciplines: Paleontology, Archaeology, and Field Biology. This work is meant to supplement existing norms in digitization processes, and begin moving many of those projects towards a more general, interoperable approach to preserving the rich content held within field note collections.
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iSchools
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42060
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/13483
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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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