Creating a modern database from archive material - The Norman Holme archive: Interpretation of marine field research notebooks in the historical context of the MBA, 1958-83

Lilley, MKS 2006 Creating a modern database from archive material - The Norman Holme archive: Interpretation of marine field research notebooks in the historical context of the MBA, 1958-83. Plymouth, UK, The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 59pp. (UNSPECIFIED) (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

This document provides details of the transfer of the Norman Holme archive data held in the National Marine Biological Library onto a modern database, specifically Marine Recorder. A key part in the creation of the database was the retrieval of a large amount of information recorded in field notebooks and on loosely-bound sheets of paper. As this work involved amending, interpreting and updating the available information, it was felt that an accurate record of this process should exist to allow scientists of the future to be able to clearly link the modern database to the archive material. This document also provides details of external information sources that were used to enhance and qualify the historical interpretation, such as estimating volumes and species abundances.

Item Type:	Publication - Report (Project Report)
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	This is a provisional version and may be suject to future changes.
Additional Keywords:	Historical account Archives Sampling Benthos English Channel
Subjects:	Ecology and Environment Oceanography
Divisions:	Marine Biological Association of the UK > Other (MBA)
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date made live:	06 Sep 2006
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2017 15:58
URI:	https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1670

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