RESOURCES
MAM GEOREFERENCING GUIDELINES
by Michelle Mancini, Anne Barber, Timothy A. Block and C. Skema
Georeferencing Guidelines, April 2019
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
by MAM staff
The following materials may be useful resources for volunteers, or in running workshops on transcription training or using floristics tools.
Transcription Training Video here.
Transcription cheatsheet
Transcription step-by-step screenshots
Floristics step-by-step screenshots
MAM TRAINING MANUAL & DIGITIZATION STANDARDS
by C. Skema and Anne Barber
Entire Manual, version 2 (current)
Entire Manual, version 1 (replaced by version 2)
SEARCHABLE COLLECTOR NAMES REFERENCE
by Anne Barber
For help in deciphering collector names, try using the following publication as a reference. The PDF has been converted to searchable text for ease of use.
Mears, James A. “Guide to Plant Collectors Represented in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 133, 1981, pp. 141–165.,
FINE FOCUS
by C. Skema, Anne Barber, and T. Block
Fine Focus is a method we developed to 1) provide a means for obtaining an objective numeric value that corresponds to focus quality, and 2) to improve focus quality in certain circumstances. You can download the software and a step-by-step instructional guide here (Box link) or here (google drive link). Please contact us with any questions you may have regarding its use.