(mostly automated) updates from the dev team behind @NHM_London's Data Portal. For regular news about digitisation work, please follow @NHM_Digitise.
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#changelog Weekly release, 3rd April 2023.
This week's several-in-one release post extravaganza covers some UI changes we've made in the past few weeks.
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#changelog Weekly release, 6th March 2023.
We've made a couple of small (but hopefully very useful) updates to the search interface based on some user feedback.
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#changelog Weekly release, 12th December 2022.
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#changelog Weekly release, 13th June 2022.
More bug fixes and bug improvements (sorry, entomologists) this week!
You can now rotate the images in the Beetle Drawer Scans viewer!
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Our five millionth specimen was collected by british-born, New Zealand entomologist George Hudson in 1936 from Wilton's Bush in New Zealand.
We have passed 5 million specimens on @NHM_London Data Portal! nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press…
#changelog Attribution (ORCIDs are finally here)
Today we're upgrading the way we attribute contributions and authorship to datasets on the Portal.
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We're excited to see what we can do with this clustering data in the future, but in the short-term we've added links from our specimen record pages to the record's cluster page on GBIF so that users can find potentially related records easily.
ALT Screenshot of the GBIF view of an NHM record on the NHM Data Portal with the new link to the GBIF cluster view highlighted.
ALT Screenshot of the external links part of the record page with the new link to the GBIF cluster page for the specimen visible.
New data-clustering feature aims to improve data quality and reveal cross-dataset connections: initial release of machine-learning algorithm identifies potentially related records, pointing toward wider integration of data gbif.org/news/4U1dz8LygQvqIy…
ALT Cortinarius vesterholtii observed in Højbjerg, Denmark by Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen. Photo via the Danish Mycological Society (used with permission).
Just highlighting this paragraph from the letter #BestGlegg received from Colonel Meinertzhagen complaining about Rothschild not appreciating his egg:
Inspired by today's #CURATORBATTLE (searching for the #SassiestObject!), I would like to take this opportunity to show you all some of the wonderful labels we found when we were looking for eggs. To start: "it's a bird what more do you want"
