index-cards-cas-galapagos-stewart-specimens

# Alban Stewart's Galápagos Expedition Specimen Cards (CAS Archives, 1905–1906) **1,059 specimen index cards** from the **California Academy of Sciences Archives**, documenting **Alban Stewart**'s botanical specimens collected on the 1905–1906 *California Academy of Sciences Galápagos Expedition*. One card per specimen with species, locality on the islands, collection date and field notes; companion to Stewart's expedition journal. Harvested from the 6 IA items [`csfa788562626`](https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626) + `csfa788562626Alpha` + `csfa788562626Pack{1,2,3,4}`. Each row pairs the full-resolution card scan with the Internet Archive's ABBYY OCR text and full provenance back to the source IA item. ## Source, licence & attribution - **Source:** California Academy of Sciences Archives — *Alban Stewart Galápagos expedition journal and specimen card file, 1905–1906.* - **IA items:** [`csfa788562626Alpha`](https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626Alpha), [`csfa788562626`](https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626), [`csfa788562626Pack1`](https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626Pack1) through `Pack4`. - **Rights:** Original cards © California Academy of Sciences. The source IA items declare `possible-copyright-status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder.` - **Licence for reuse:** [Biodiversity Heritage Library Permissions](https://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions). The BHL framework permits reuse with attribution. On any reuse, please credit **California Academy of Sciences Archives** and **Alban Stewart**, and link back to the source IA item and to BHL permissions. ## Schema | column | type | description | |---|---|---| | `image` | image | the card scan (JPEG, re-encoded from the IA JP2 derivative) | | `ocr_text` | string | full-item OCR text from the IA ABBYY/DjVu output | | `page` | int | page index within the source item | | `source_id` | string | IA item identifier | | `source_title` | string | IA item title | | `source_collection` | string | IA collection (`biodiversity`) | | `source_url` | string | `https://archive.org/details/<source_id>` | | `license` | string | `undetermined` (legacy field; actual rights = CAS © + BHL Permissions, see above) | | `theme` | string | `natural_history_specimen` | ## How this was built Part of an exploration of public archival index-card collections for GLAM/AI work. The reusable harvester (resumable per-item parquet shards, polite IA access, JP2 → JPEG decode via Pillow) runs on Hugging Face Jobs against a curated list of IA items. ## Citation > Stewart, Alban. *Alban Stewart Galápagos expedition journal and specimen card > file, 1905–1906 (Inclusive).* California Academy of Sciences Archives. > Available via the Internet Archive / Biodiversity Heritage Library: > <https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626Alpha>. Reuse under > <https://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions>. ## Sibling datasets [`biglam/index-cards-harvard-botany-metropolitan-flora`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/index-cards-harvard-botany-metropolitan-flora) — Walter Deane's 1894–95 *Card File of the Flora of the Metropolitan Parks* (Harvard Botany Libraries, NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT). Browse the wider catalogue: [BigLAM "Index card datasets" collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/biglam/index-card-datasets-68e38b801f349a4ef520cf03).