Description
The Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHM-DK) would like to start digitising the field notebooks, publications and books in their library, some of which have significant historical value. The head of the Nordjylland National Park Management Office would like to have the contents of a particular classic literary compilation digitised for a project they are carrying out: "Birds at Danish lighthouses, 1883-1939 (In Danish, "Fuglene ved de danske Fyr, 1883-1939"). They want to use all the occurrence data recorded in these books from two lighthouses (Lodbjerg Fyr and Hanstholm Fyr) for an exhibition project on site.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,212 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Winge, O. (ed.), 1888. Report on Birds in Denmark, 1886. Ornis. p. 369-440.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Training Organization. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Publisher
- curator
- Point Of Contact
- curator
- Publisher
- Project manager
Geographic Coverage
In the period 1883-1939, 45 lighthouses and lightships were active in Denmark. These lighthouses were used by several bird species during the bird migration period between 1886 and 1939.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [54.521, 5.449], North East [57.516, 15.029] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Aves, Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1886-09-30 / 1939-02-12 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | LightHouseBirdDenmark |
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The personnel involved in the project:
- Publisher
Sampling Methods
In the period 1883-1939, 45 lighthouses and lightships were active in Denmark. These lighthouses were used by several bird species during the bird migration period between 1886 and 1939. The presence and activities of these birds were recorded, especially by the keepers of these lighthouses who also collected specimens that were sent to the museum in Copenhagen. These birds were carefully preserved and catalogued by the museum's collection managers and the specimens are still present there today. 23 columns and 1213 lines
| Study Extent | The aim of the project is to mobilise the information contained in these volumes, to preserve their content for the future and to provide online access for everyone. With the participation of DanBIF, there is the intention to publish and record the data extracted with GBIF. |
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Method step description:
- The museum will carry out the digitisation of the literature with the help of two library staff members who are trained to use the library scanner to scan delicate volumes. They also extract text from the scans using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Three volunteers from the Copenhagen Ornithological Society (COS) who regularly work with the museum and know the birds in the area have been hired to help and will complete the data transfer from the scanned PDFs to spreadsheet format. They will have to come to the museum and use the computers available in the library to access the files stored on the museum's intranet (private network). The Ornithology Curator in the NHM-DK Bird Department will lead the team responsible for taxonomic checking, data curation, cleaning, format and transformation, and will oversee the entry of metadata for the published dataset. The team includes a collaborating researcher from Sweden, and two postdoctoral students. They have been selected for this task because they are used to working with digital biodiversity data. They will all use their own work computers. The DanBIF Node Manager will ensure that the institution is correctly registered in GBIF as a data provider and that the deputy director and curator of the ornithological collection have the appropriate credentials and access to the DanBIF IPT instance to upload and publish the data.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Birds at Danish lighthouses collection |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://training-ipt-a.gbif.org/resource?r=lighthousebirddenmark |
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