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Accession 15-066

National Museum of Natural History

Website Records, 2014

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Museum of Natural History
Title:Website Records
Dates:2014
Quantity:
Collection:Accession 15-066
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of the "Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide" website as it existed on July 8, 2014. The website accompanies a downloadable mobile application of the same name which uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. The initial application only contains species in the northeastern United States and was jointly developed by Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. This website shows the tree species included in the mobile application, the collections of its users, and the team of research volunteers working to produce it. Due to technical issues, most of the website's images could not be captured and this accession consists primarily of text. Materials are in electronic format.

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This accession consists of the "Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide" website as it existed on July 8, 2014. The website accompanies a downloadable mobile application of the same name which uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. The initial application only contains species in the northeastern United States and was jointly developed by Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. This website shows the tree species included in the mobile application, the collections of its users, and the team of research volunteers working to produce it. Due to technical issues, most of the website's images could not be captured and this accession consists primarily of text. Materials are in electronic format.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-066, National Museum of Natural History, Website Records

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Electronic Records

"Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide" website, crawled July 8, 2014

"Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide" website, crawled July 8, 2014
Electronic Records

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