[Rockhounds] Reexcavating Dark Data From Museum Fossil Collections

[Stephen Shimatzki]

Nice, I'm all about the scans.  Got me a 3d printer and can print a few
things... Now to go (digital) fossil hunting!

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:23 PM Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:

> We’re Hardly Using Any of Our Fossils
> The vast majority are languishing in
> museum storage. Is it time to dig them
> up all over again? By Cara Giaimo
> Atlas Obscura,  September 26, 2018
> https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-online-database
>
> The paper si:
>
> Marshall, C.R., Finnegan, S., Clites, E.C., Holroyd,
> P.A., Bonuso, N., Cortez, C., Davis, E., Dietl, G.P.,
> Druckenmiller, P.S., Eng, R.C. and Garcia, C., 2018.
> Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil
> collections as palaeontology undergoes a second
> digital revolution. Biology letters, 14(9), p.20180431
> http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/9/20180431
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
>
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