Exercise 2

Data capture

The scans and character recognition (OCR) of the books have been completed. Occurrence data must now be extracted from those sources and compiled in a spreadsheet format.

The original data was in German and, to make it more widely usable when published online, the project manager would like to make it available in English.

2. Cerchneis tinnunculus, Linn. ( "Taarnfalk") nests in several steeples around Viborg.

At the churches of Mönsted and Daubjerg there were several family groups in 1880, each of 7 individuals, suggesting a particularly abundant source of food on the surrounding heather (lizards). In the area of Thisted, where the tower falcon broods very often, young were always present in broods of 6, only once did I find a group of 7 on Egebäksande (H.)

In Horsens I found kestrels brooding on the churches of Vähr, Hansted, Hundslund, Thyrsted and Oelsted. In the steeple of Vähr I found a nest with 6 eggs on 6 May 1875, 6 eggs on 30 April 1876, 4 eggs on 28 April 1878; in 1877 and 1879 there were none, on 2 May 1880 they had 5 eggs, in 1882 also 5 eggs, and in 1883 seven.

In Oelsted 5 eggs on 3 May 1879, in 1882 also 5, and in 1883 6 eggs.

On the churches (Our Lady’s and St. Peter’s) of Copenhagen, I have often seen it in the autumn and winter of 1879; in spring 1880, it brooded on Our Lady’s church, the "round tower" and the law firm building (in a valve) and certainly also on St. Peter’s Church. (F.)

  1. Take the role of a volunteer charged with transforming the translated text into a spreadsheet as individual occurrences. The occurrences will need unique numbers assigned to them.

  2. Create a spreadsheet using the data fields listed in the Digital data description using data found in the example above recorded by: Chr. Fr. Lütken.

  3. Use the exercise sheet to provide your answers and submit the spreadsheet.

In the examples used, the individual occurrences do not always contain data to complete all of the columns in the spreadsheet.

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