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A summer in Siberia: the travel and the collection itinerary to the mouth of the Ob River by the botanist and ethno-anthropologist Stéphen Sommier in 1880

open access: yesJournal of Maps
Stéphen Sommier (1848–1922) was a renowned botanist, plant collector, ethnographer, geographer and photographer. He is best known for his scientific expeditions to Italy, Scandinavia and Russia.
Daniele Viciani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Designing interoperable museum information systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Museum collections are characterized by heterogeneity, since they usually host a plethora of objects of categories, while each of them requires different description policies and metadata standards. Moreover the museum records, which keep the history and
Gavrilis, Dimitris   +2 more
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Cellpose+, a Morphological Analysis Tool for Feature Extraction of Stained Cell Images

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
We introduce Cellpose plus, a morphological and geometrical analysis tool for feature extraction of stained cell images built over Cellpose, a state‐of‐the‐art cell segmentation framework. We also introduce a dataset of DAPI and FITC stained cells to which our new method is applied.
Israel A. Huaman   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collections for people: museums' stored collections as a public resource [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Collections in UK museums grew enormously in the latter half of the 20th century yet museum collections, mostly maintained at public expense, are perceived as an underused resource.
Keene, S, Monti, F, Stevenson, A
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Purchasing Storage Furniture to Rehouse and Make Collections Accessible [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) seeks NEH support in the preservation of its humanities collections following a natural disaster by purchasing and installing new storage furniture and environmental and light monitoring equipment ...
Stefanie Kohn, Stefanie Kohn
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Accelerating Pinned Insect Specimen Digitization: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Future Collaborative Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
The study presents a prototype novel workflow that utilizes artificial intelligence for the digitization of natural history collections, which would fit within a robotic‐integrated system. The work focuses on a collaborative‐robot (cobot) inspired workflow to digitize one of the largest collections housed at the Natural History Museum UK: pinned ...
Naifeng Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: new discoveries cast light on changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2020
Among the thirty-six paintings ascribed to the Dutch seventeenth century artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Mistress and Maid, in The Frick Collection, stands out for the large-scale figures set against a rather plain background depicting a barely ...
Dorothy Mahon   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of a Methodology to Understand Climate-induced Damage in Decorated Oak Wood Panels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Climate-induced damage in decorated oak wood panels is considered to be a high risk for pre-eminent museum collections. To advise museums on the development of sustainable future preservation strategies and rational guidelines for indoor climate ...
Ankersmit, H.A.   +8 more
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Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

News from Academy Bay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Plant nursery at CDRS. Tortoises from Cerro Paloma, Isabela Threatened. Goats damage Volcán Alcedo, Isabela. Collections at the CDRS Museum. Goats on Pinta again? Is there a Guadalupe River in Galápagos? Eastern kingbird sighting.

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