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Orli, Sylvia

Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History

Botany IT Manager

Manager for all IT related activities in the Department of Botany. Digitization and volunteer transcription (crowdsourcing) lead. Website manager.

selected publications

article
- Schuettpelz, Eric, Frandsen, Paul, Dikow, Rebecca B., Brown, Abel, Orli, Sylvia S., Peters, Melinda, Metallo, Adam, Funk, Vicki, and Dorr, Laurence J. 2017. "Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections." Biodiversity Data Journal 5:e21139. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e21139 2017
- Orli, Sylvia S. and Bird, Jessica. 2016. "Establishing Workflows and Opening Access to Data within Natural History Collections." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 12 (2):147-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/155019061601200208 2016
- Wiersema, John H., McNeill, John, Turland, Nicholas J., Orli, Sylvia S., and Wagner, Warren L. 2015. "The foundation of the Melbourne Code Appendices: Announcing a new paradigm for tracking nomenclatural decisions." Taxon 64 (5):1021-1027. https://doi.org/10.12705/645.11 2015
dataset
- Orli, Sylvia and Shetler, Stanwyn. 2019. [Dataset] "Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Washington-Baltimore Area." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.9738137.V1 2019
- Orli, Sylvia and Shetler, Stanwyn. 2019. [Dataset] "DC Flora Spring Flowering Dates." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.9738167.V1 2019