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Digitizing Scientific Collections

Digitizing Scientific Collections Brown Science & Engineering Library Current Collections Online Catalog of Glass Plate Stacks Astronomy Department Digitizing Herbarium Specimen Mountain Lake Biological Station, Biology Department What the Library Has to Offer Organizational skills

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Digitizing Scientific Collections

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  1. Digitizing Scientific Collections Brown Science & Engineering Library

  2. Current Collections • Online Catalog of Glass Plate Stacks • Astronomy Department • Digitizing Herbarium Specimen • Mountain Lake Biological Station, Biology Department

  3. What the Library Has to Offer • Organizational skills • Knowledge about standards • Database standards • Metadata standards • Programming skills, ways to enrich the digital collections • Web page design • PHP scripting and programming

  4. In Addition to the Library • Work with subject specialists • Geographic specialists • Standards specialists

  5. Astronomy Plate Stacks • Created a database of plate catalog data • turning the ASCII file into more structured data that we could use to turn into a searchable catalog of plates • Designed a web page and search interface Catalog of Scanned Plates

  6. MLBS Herbarium

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