Field Note Transcription on Notes from Nature

We are excited to announce our first Notes from Nature transcription project using ALICE. ALICE is the Aggregate Line Inspector and Collaborative Editor tool. One of the main advantages of this tool is that it allows us to transcribe long pages of text a single line at a time. This means that we can transcribe one line of the page or the entire page depending on the time and motivation. 

This set of expeditions is part of the RANGES project, which is focused on biodiversity information about mammals. We are starting off our field note transcription expeditions with books from the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum mammal collection. 

William C. Stanley was a student at the University of Kansas (KU) from 1961-1963. While at KU, Stanley participated in three field expeditions. The first occurred in Summer 1961 as part of the late Curator of Mammals J. Knox Jones’s summer field course in Vertebrate Natural History. During the second trip, in Summer 1962, Stanley, Jones, and fellow KU naturalists, Ticul Alvarez and Richard C. Fox, surveyed mammals in Mexico. During  the third expedition, Summer 1963, Stanley surveyed bats in Kansas.Visit the RANGES Project on Notes from Nature and try it out! Look for the expeditions titled: W.C. Stanley’s Field Notes 1961 – 1963.