Results 1 to 10 of about 5,003,360 (302)

Mapping the Digitisation Workflow in a University Herbarium [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023
Specimens or objects in natural history collections hold substantial research and cultural value that is enhanced where these items are made digitally available.
Karen Thompson, Joanne Birch
doaj   +3 more sources

Geology collection policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2021
The Geology Collection is part of the national collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus. General principles and guidelines for the collections are defined in the General Collection Policy of Luomus.
Arto Luttinen, Risto Väinölä, Jaana Halla, Björn Kröger, Kari Lintulaakso, Aino Juslén, Markku Oinonen, Pasi Sihvonen, Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Sechelleptus arborivagus sp. nov., a new arboreal spirostreptid millipede (Diplopoda, Spirostreptidae) endemic to Mayotte Island (Comoros Archipelago), Indian Ocean

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2021
A new millipede species of the genus Sechelleptus Mauriès, 1980 is described and illustrated from Mayotte Island, Indian Ocean. This new species, S. arborivagus sp. nov., found on trees, looks particularly similar to the sympatric S.
Didier VandenSpiegel, Arnaud Henrard, Aurore Mathys   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crafting Collections between Vernacular and Institutional Practice

FORMakademisk, 2021
This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and applies theories of crafting and performance to explore how living heritage practices are rethought, reframed, and refashioned when traditional dress and individual garments are moved, reorganized, and ...
Lizette Graden
doaj   +1 more source

Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison, la biblioteca feminista

BiD: Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, 2020
Aquest article pretén ser una explicació de com des de la Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison, i vinculant-nos a la història mateixa de l'edifici, treballem des d'una òptica feminista tant els serveis i la col·lecció com les activitats que oferim ...
Muñoz Carrilero, Raquel, Oriola Tarragó, Maria   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Navigating conservation strategies: linking material research on alum-treated wood from the Oseberg collection to conservation decisions

Heritage Science, 2018
From the mid-1800s to the late 1950s, conservation by alum salts (aluminum potassium sulfate dodecahydrate)—with some variations—was a routine method for treating highly deteriorated waterlogged archaeological wood in many countries, especially in ...
Susan Braovac, Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Malin Sahlstedt, Hartmut Kutzke, Jeannette J. Łucejko, Torunn Klokkernes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temperature- and humidity-induced changes in alum-treated wood: a qualitative X-ray diffraction study

Heritage Science, 2018
Alum-treated wooden artefacts suffer from extreme deterioration, and the stability of these objects and the salts they contain to variations in climate conditions is an important issue.
Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Calin C. Steindal, Olga Narygina, Susan Braovac   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ammonium alum in alum-treated wooden artefacts: discovery, origins and consequences

Heritage Science, 2019
Alum-treatment was extensively applied to archaeological wood from the Oseberg collection in the early 1900s, and was a common conservation method at the time involving impregnating objects with hot concentrated solutions of potassium alum (KAl(SO4)2 ...
Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Jeannette J. Łucejko, Ingrid M. T. Flåte, Francesca Modugno, Susan Braovac   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Arranging the Pieces: A Survey of Library Practices Related to a Tabletop Game Collection

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017
Objective – The purpose of this study is to explore collection development, cataloguing, processing, and circulation practices for tabletop game collections in libraries. This study used the term “tabletop games” to refer to the array of game styles that
Teresa Slobuski, Diane Robson, PJ Bentley   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Challenges and Prospects for the Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources in Field Genebanks, in In Vitro Collections and/or in Liquid Nitrogen

Plants, 2020
The conservation of crop genetic resources, including their wild relatives, is of utmost importance for the future of mankind. Most crops produce orthodox seeds and can, therefore, be stored in seed genebanks. However, this is not an option for crops and
Bart Panis, Manuela Nagel, Ines Van den houwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source