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Provides “free on-line tools to identify species, teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life with 1,267,805 species pages and 623,990 maps.” | Provides “free on-line tools to identify species, teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life with 1,267,805 species pages and 623,990 maps.” | ||
*[http://eol.org Encyclopedia of Life]<br>Mission: “To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.” | |||
*[http://fromthepage.com/ FromThePage ]<br> | |||
“FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.” (Example from [http://fromthepage.bpoc.org herpetology field notes]) | “FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.” (Example from [http://fromthepage.bpoc.org herpetology field notes]) | ||
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* [http://symbiota.org/ Symbiota]<br>“The Symbiota Software Project is working towards building a library of webtools to aid biologists in establishing specimen based virtual floras and faunas… The central premise of this open source software project is that through a partnership between software engines and the scientific community, higher quality and more publicly useful biodiversity portals can be built.”<br> | * [http://symbiota.org/ Symbiota]<br>“The Symbiota Software Project is working towards building a library of webtools to aid biologists in establishing specimen based virtual floras and faunas… The central premise of this open source software project is that through a partnership between software engines and the scientific community, higher quality and more publicly useful biodiversity portals can be built.”<br> | ||
*[http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bpp/ USGS North American Bird Phenology Program] <br>“The North American Bird Phenology Program… exists now as a historic collection of six million migration card observations. Today, in an innovative project to curate the data and make them publically available, the records are being scanned and placed on the internet, where volunteers worldwide transcribe these records and add them into a database for analysis.” | *[http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bpp/ USGS North American Bird Phenology Program] <br>“The North American Bird Phenology Program… exists now as a historic collection of six million migration card observations. Today, in an innovative project to curate the data and make them publically available, the records are being scanned and placed on the internet, where volunteers worldwide transcribe these records and add them into a database for analysis.” | ||
=='''Workflow Procedures, Data Management and Visualization'''== | =='''Workflow Procedures, Data Management and Visualization'''== | ||