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Once you've mastered the art of attributing specimens in Bloodhound Tracker you may want to try to get more challenging collectors such as Miss Blackler into Bloodhound. This is my favourite area of work as it's like a detective hunt. And I've got lots of friends who help!
I came across "Miss Blackler" as I had seen her in the @HarvardHerbaria Index of Botanists. She collected in Oregon and California. I created a @Wikidata item for her and added the HUH identifier. wikidata.org/wiki/Q93018256
But to add her to Bloodhound Tracker I need an EXACT, down to the day, birth & death date. And that's where it can get tricky. Our Miss Blackler collected in Olympia and @metacoretechs found a reference to a Lydia Hooper Blackler in the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/histor…
Based on info @idbde found, Lydia Hooper Blackler lived in Olympia, remained unmarried, travelled & lived in California, where other specimens of hers were collected. ashefamily.info/ashefamily/187… As a result I'm confident that this is our "Miss Blackler". She's also in @FindaGrave
So now I update her @Wikidata item. wikidata.org/wiki/Q93018256 I'll add as much information as we've all found, add as many references as I can so that other researchers can track what we've done. I'll include the all important (for Bloodhound Tracker) exact birth and death dates.
I've also found a public domain image of her via @OrHist digitalcollections.ohs.org/blackler-lydia… Before I add her to Bloodhound Tracker I'll download this & upload it to @Wikicommons. I can then add it to her Wikidata item. This in turn will be pulled into Bloodhound when I add her to the site.
Now to add her to Bloodhound Tracker. I take her Wikidata item Q93018256 and go to the site. I press the "Help others" button top right, and then the "Help/Add" tab. I add the Wikidata Q item number in and press the green "Add" button.
She's then added to Bloodhound, it's just a matter of clicking on her and then attributing specimens like we did previously with George Howes. #EasyPeezy
Don't forget to press "Make Public" once you've attributed a few specimens. You don't HAVE to get to 100%, anything is better than nothing.
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