literature birds 

luz gomez1

1 NHMD, , Denmark

Corresponding author(s): luz gomez

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Fuglene ved de danske Fyr, 1883-1939 http://danbif.dk/links/litteratur/fyrfaldne-fugle/NHMD_LighthouseBirds_1886.pdf

Abstract

The data package corresponds to 1273 bird records published by the Natural History Museum of Denmark, in the localities: Hanstholm Fyr and, Lodbjerg Fyr. Through a literature search from 1886 to 1938 in which any of the 101 species mentioned or the 3 genera found respectively were reported.

Keywords: Occurrence, Aves, Denmark, Literature

Project details

Project title: Fuglene ved de danske Fyr, 1883-1939
Design description: 1. The museum will carry out the digitization of literature by using two library staff members, trained in the use of the library scanner, to scan sensitive volumes. They will also extract the text from the scans using optical character recognition (OCR) software.

2. Three volunteers from the Copenhagen Ornithological Society (COS) will complete the data transfer from the scanned PDFs to spreadsheet format.

3. The NHM-DK Department of Birds Curator of Ornithology will lead the team responsible for taxonomic verification, curation, cleaning, formatting and transformation of the data, and will oversee the introduction of metadata for the published dataset.

4. Verification of GBIF credentials and IPT access by the DanBIF node administrator

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=lgomezlighthousebirds

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: N/A
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes, Passeriformes, Podicipediformes
Family: Fringillidae, Scolopacidae, Podicipedidae, Emberizidae, Turdidae, Haematopodidae, Charadriidae, Sylviidae, Phylloscopidae, Muscicapidae, Sturnidae, Alaudidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The study area in which the review was carried out was Denmark, in the national park Lodbjerg Fyr (56.823428 – 8.262789) and, Hanstholm Fyr (57.112667 - 8.598575)
Coordinates: 56°49'24.34''N and 57°6'45.6''N Latitude; 8°15'46.04''E and 8°35'54.87''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 30, 1886 - October 28, 1938

Natural collections description

Collection name: Lighthouse Birds

Methods

Method step description: 1. Digitization of the literature with personnel trained in the use of the scanner and in the extraction of text from the scans using optical character recognition (OCR) software.

2. The NHM-DK Department of Birds Curator of Ornithology will lead the team responsible for taxonomic verification, curation, cleaning, formatting and transformation of the data, and will oversee the introduction of metadata for the published dataset .

Study extent description: Between 1883-1939, there were 45 lighthouses and lightships in operation in Denmark. The lighthouses were used by several species of birds during the nights of their migration period [Lodbjerg Fyr (56.823428 – 8.262789) and, Hanstholm Fyr (57.112667 - 8.598575)], they were preserved and cataloged by the Copenhagen Museum, and, They documented the observations of the meteorological conditions at the time of the discovery of the specimens.
Sampling description: 1. Digitization of literature

2. Extraction of the text (Scientific name that appears in the book, common name(s) in Danish that appears in the book; locality; year/month/day; observed number of individuals; sex, stage of life; comments, and URL of the digitized book page where the biological record is provided) of the scans using optical character recognition (OCR) software.

3. Data transfer from scanned PDFs to spreadsheet format.

4. Taxonomic verification, Curation, cleaning, format and transformation of the data

5. Introduction of metadata for the published data set.

Quality control description: 1. Taxonomic verification, Curation, cleaning, format and transformation of the data
2. Verification of credentials of the institution, director and curator by DanBIF

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive literature birds 
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=lgomezlighthousebirds
Publication date of data: 2022-12-16
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-12-16
Hierarchy level: Dataset