C. Sheffield and R. Russell

Examples of field books

Examples of field books?

And this.

Related projects

Related Cataloging Practices

…or not.

MARC15.4%

Dublin Core10.3%

EAD12.8%

Local Schema17.9%ICMS

7.7%

Specify2.6%

No answer33.3%

Information Needs

• Geographical location – 67%

• Environment and habitat descriptions – 41%

• Species information – 33%

• Specimen / museum collection info – 26%

• Narrative or historical information – 15%

Existing Standards

• Collection Level: Natural Collections Description (NCD)

• Item level: Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)

• Archival Authority Control: Encoded Archival Context (EAC)

NCD CollectionCollectionId: NCDC78Title: Frederick Coville, field books, 1890-1924

Owner: EACO9

Creator: EACP173

Description: The collection consists of Coville's field notes from botanical collecting and observation efforts in …

MODS Item MODSid: MODSI1281Collection: NCDC78Title: Field notes, Death Valley Expedition, 1891Dates: 1891.05.10-1891.07.30

Creator: EACP173

Expedition: EACE 0017

Abstract: This item contains narrative notes and lists of botanical specimens collected or observed during Coville'sresearch in Death Valley . …

EAC PersonPersonId: EACP173Name: Coville, Frederick (Frederick Vernon), 1867-1937Dates: 1867-1937Biographical history: Frederick Vernon Coville, botanist and blueberry breeder, was born in New York and educated…

EAC ExpeditionExpId: EACE0017Name: Death Valley Expedition Dates: 1890-1891Description: The Death Valley Expedition was the first biological survey to …

EAC OrganizationOrgId: EACO9Name: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany

Metadata!

But field books from that expedition are also in my collections…

How will we bring them together?

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Connecting Content

Partners

Next Steps

• Test ingest process with partners

• Iterate, iterate, iterate

• Open the Registry for additional partners

• Ongoing development of tools and features

Project Team

Principal Investigators

Rusty Russell

Anne Van Camp

Project Staff

Carolyn Sheffield

Sonoe Nakasone

Lesley Parilla

Emily Hunter

Project Advisors & Support

Ricc Ferrante

Tammy Peters

Sarah Stauderman

Nora Lockshin

Kristen Tyree

Kira Cherrix

Funding

Website:

http://mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/

Blog:

http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/

Flickr:

http://tinyurl.com/fbpflickr

Contact: Carolyn Sheffield, sheffieldc@si.edu

Thank you