Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift

R Hopman - Big Data & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In natural history museums around the globe, museum staff are working on making
collections of specimens (such as insects on pins, snail shells, dried plants, mounted birds) …

Introduction. Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

D Dubald, C Madruga - Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2022 - shs.hal.science
The naturalist's field is often taken as a romanticized place of awe and wonder or a side
activity to scientific work. This special issue seeks to establish the field as neither the origin …