Guest blog by Emma Bonzo
From California to digitising the Museum’s pollen collection, read about Emma Bonzo’s internship with the Museum’s Digitsation team.
Continue reading “Digitising Pollen: A Museum Studies Placement | Digital Collections”Bats about Data
Nearly two years after the first case of COVID 19 we are still dealing with massive human health impacts and changes in our daily lives, but how can digitising bats help prevent future pandemics?
Continue reading “Bats about Data”What do the Common swift, Cockchafer and Caddisfly all have in common? | Digital Collections Programme
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A guest blog by Nicola Lowndes
Adults of these species are attracted to the light of a moth trap of course! In this instance I am not referring to the Common Swift bird (Apus apus) that is seen carrying out impressive aerial displays in summer but instead to the beautiful Common Swift moth (Korscheltellus lupulina).
Continue reading “What do the Common swift, Cockchafer and Caddisfly all have in common? | Digital Collections Programme”Joining the digitisation team – in the middle of a pandemic | Digital Collections
Laura Jacklin is on secondment as the Communications Manager for the Digital Collections Programme. A few weeks in, she shares her first impressions.
I’ve worked at the Museum for three years, but moving from the marketing team to the Digital Collections Programme has felt like I’ve entered a parallel universe – it’s the Museum, but not as I know it!
Continue reading “Joining the digitisation team – in the middle of a pandemic | Digital Collections”Creating a buzz around the world| Digital Collections Programme
A guest blog by Pete Wing
We are opening up the Museum’s Bee type collection to the world by digitising, geo referencing and releasing the specimens online. Continue reading “Creating a buzz around the world| Digital Collections Programme”
Day in the life of a digitiser |Digital Collections Programme
A guest blog by Lizzy Devenish
In preparation of this blog I’ve been asking myself what, exactly, do I do for my job. “Well,” I say, “I’m a digitiser – I assist in the digitisation of specimens.” “Fantastic!” you say, “but what the hell do you do?” Continue reading “Day in the life of a digitiser |Digital Collections Programme”