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‘Just put it online’: The Taylor White project as a digitization case study (2021)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 75
Issue: 4
Pages: 627-642
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2020.0068

URI: https://royalsocietypublishing-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2020.0068

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Ornithology Science and art Visualization Primary literature (historical sources) Databases Electronic collections Museum collections management Digitization 21st century Taylor White McGill University (Canada)

Creating access to digital surrogates of primary source materials has spurred the growth of history of science as a field. Enabling and supporting virtual access requires an understanding of the behind-the-scenes requirements of a digitization project. Using McGill's Taylor White Project as a case study, this article reveals how such a project is managed, to result in a unique digital collection that supports research in both the humanities and the sciences. The workflows described transformed a collection of 938 eighteenth-century natural history drawings from a relatively inaccessible archive to a searchable and browsable digital collection, complete with contextualizing interactive visualizations. Understanding this process reveals some of the ways in which digitized data can create new avenues for questioning and examining information.

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Article Victoria Dickenson (2021) Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White (1701–1772) and His Collections. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 507-513). unapi

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