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Historical documents

Transcribe text and capture data from historical documents to make them digitally accessible.

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Wildlife Spottter

Identify and tag images of animals and collection objects to support information discovery and research.

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Transcribing Anindilyakwa

Field notesLiving Archive of Aboriginal Languages

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages contains materials sourced from Indigenous communities around Australia, digitised with permission. All materials go through a process of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) but the software doesn't always do a good job with these books, due to layout, faded print, special characters, unusual fonts, etc.

You can assist by creating transcripts for the materials that the OCR software couldn't manage.

You don't need to understand the languages to assist with this project.

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Richard M. Hansen Catalog Notes 1950

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City of Parramatta Minute Book 1889-1893 (Part 2)

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John Neil Jensen Catalog Notes 1963-1965

Field notesNatural History Museum of Utah
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Flowering Plants of Australia (part 3)

SpecimensRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Phoma specimens from the Kew Fungarium

SpecimensRoyal Botanic Gardens - Kew
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Australian horse fly expedition 6

SpecimensAustralian National Insect Collection
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Dolichandra - Kew specimens

SpecimensRoyal Botanic Gardens - Kew
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Australian Museum Tissue Register Expedition

Field notesAustralian Museum Archives Collection
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South African SAFARIS – FN book 20

Field notesSouthern African Friends and Researchers Indexing Specimens
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Australian horse fly expedition 5

SpecimensAustralian National Insect Collection
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