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Yale Leaf Morphology Digitization And Network Project, David Stern Jan 2013

Yale Leaf Morphology Digitization And Network Project, David Stern

David Stern

This article describes a digitization project inspired by the innovative leaf morphology classification work of a faculty member in the Geology and Geophysics Department and the Peabody Museum at Yale University. We began our initiative by scanning the Flora Fossilis Arctica, a 7-volume fossil leaf identification tool covering various geological areas, published between 1868 and 1883. This classic paleobotany resource was digitized, creating tiff, pdf, and searchable pdf files. We are now converting the searchable pdf files into ASCII text, enhancing the raw data with metadata elements, placing this material on the web for searching and display; and linking this …


Less Is More: Essential Web Resources That Eliminate Clutter And Enhance Service, Naomi Gold Dec 2010

Less Is More: Essential Web Resources That Eliminate Clutter And Enhance Service, Naomi Gold

Naomi Gold

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Weighted Voting Models For The Hathitrust Constitutional Convention, Julia Lovett Dec 2008

Weighted Voting Models For The Hathitrust Constitutional Convention, Julia Lovett

Julia Lovett

In March 2011, the HathiTrust Digital Library partner institutions will meet for a Constitutional Convention (CC). At this meeting, the partners will either develop a new governance model for HathiTrust or articulate a set of questions to frame a post‐Convention discussion of a new governance model. Questions might include: What should the governing boards be, and how should they be constituted? Which institutions should have representative power, and how many representatives should there be per institution? Should HathiTrust have a new host institution and, if so, what criteria should be used to select a new host institution? These decisions will …