The Great British Elm Hunt - Cambridge University Herbarium Hack - Cambridge Festival 2023
Channel: Cambridge University Herbarium
Date: 2023-03-20

This is a recording of the live Zoom session held on Sunday 19th March 2023 at the start of a two-week herbarium specimen transcription event focusing on transcribing nearly 1,300 elm specimens held in the Cambridge University Herbarium, as part of the 2023 Cambridge Festival.

In the talk, Curator of the University Herbarium, Dr Lauren Gardiner, gives a short introduction to some of the collections held in the University Herbarium and then shows how to transcribe the specimens in the Zooniverse Notes from Nature platform. 

You can find the online transcription project here - https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md68135/notes-from-nature-herbarium - scroll down the page a little to see 'The Great British Elm Hunt' tab to find this project. The accompanying tutorial and 'need some help with this task?' pop-up help sections for each field that needs to be transcribed - plus this recording - should help you find your way around transcribing the specimens, and there is a 'done & talk' function at the end of each transcription where you can flag a specimen up with any problems you had deciphering what to write for any of the fields and leave a comment for us and others to discuss and help. 

Thank you for your help and interest in this project! Please follow us on Twitter @CUHerb.

The original Cambridge Festival event pages: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/university-herbarium-hack-launch-and-qa and https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/university-herbarium-hack-help-us-unlock-our-collections-comfort-your-home.

Cambridge Festival website: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/
Cambridge University Herbarium website: https://data.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/herbarium/.