Diane Tough, Head of Cataloguing at the Natural History Museum Library, talked about recent developments in the methods of collection description at the Museum. The Library is one of the foremost resources for researchers in molecular biology, biodiversity, systematics, taxonomy, and the history of science, and consists of over one million books and half a million artworks. Its extensive collections consist not only of current documentation, but also of older material representing a vital source for the study of both biodiversity and early printed scientific books.
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30 March 2010, 15:30 - 19:00
Venue
Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre (Room G06)
Engineering Faculty
Torrington Place
WC1E 7JE [directions]
Torrington Place
WC1E 7JE [directions]
Programme
Creepy-crawlies, mammoths and lotus blossom, all have a place at the Natural History Museum. Today the data painstakingly collected over centuries by naturalists and other scientists are being liberated from their institutional archives, made available in rejuvenated catalogues and published on the Web.
Diane Tough & Rita Dockery will talk about recent developments in the methods of collection description at the Museum whose library is one of the foremost resources for researchers in molecular biology, biodiversity, systematics, taxonomy, and the history of science, and consists of over one million books and half a million artworks.
Graham Higley will tell us about the Encyclopaedia of Life - an ambitious project that aims to build an online resource in which every species on earth will have its own web page. This international enterprise consists of five major projects: the Species Pages Group, the Biodiversity Informatics Group, the Scanning and Digitization Group, the Learning and Education Group, and the Biodiversity Synthesis Group. Together they are creating an unparalleled resource for the life sciences that covers every aspect of the study, research, recording and documentation of living creatures.
Speakers and abstracts
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Diane Tough
Collection description at the Natural History Museum
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Graham Higley
Encyclopedia of life
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The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious project to build an online resource in which every species on earth will have its own web page. This international enterprise consists of five major projects: the Species Pages Group, the Biodiversity Informatics Group, the Scanning and Digitization Group, the Learning and Education Group, and the Biodiversity Synthesis Group. Together they are creating an unparalleled resource for the life sciences that covers every aspect of the study, research, recording and documentation of living creatures. This impressive mass of material is available freely to all, allowing public access to much of the content for the first time.