SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
12-5-14
tags: video games, digitize collections
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12-5-14
Crowdsourcing old journals
Breaking Newstags: video games, digitize collections
From the time he was 10 a century and a half ago, William Brewster searched the woods and fields of New England for birds, eventually becoming a noted ornithologist and spending half his life curating the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology’s bird collection.
In addition to his passion for fieldwork, Brewster was a diligent note-taker. When he died in 1919, he left behind a collection of 40,000 birds, nests, and eggs, but also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that provide valuable insights on both the birdlife of his era and, through his writing on other subjects, the times themselves.
At least, they would if people could read them.
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