Geo-coding species occurrence from historical books and records

[Aaditeshwar Seth]

Continuing from the previous email of what's possible with knowledge extraction, here's two fascinating maps dones by Anand, Kiran, Shashank and team at the Auroville Botanical Gardens, as part of the ERA knowledge desk. 

They digitized the classic A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (Champion & Seth): https://championandsethspecies.pages.dev/ and Flora of Madras Presidency (J.S. Gamble): https://floraarchive.netlify.app/ books into maps! 

There is interest in doing the same for research papers and reports. If you are interested then please join the dev calls on Fridays at 3pm. Tons of exciting ideas that you can contribute to. 

See also this short note on taking care when using these tools: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-024-00043-9

Adi

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Aaditeshwar Seth
Microsoft Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi

Co-founder, Gram Vaani; Co-founder, CoRE Stack

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