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Collection Software, E-Resource American offshore whaling logbook data Dataset of American offshore whaling logbook data / Offshore whaling logbook data / AOWL

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Title

  • American offshore whaling logbook data

Other Title

  • Dataset of American offshore whaling logbook data
  • Offshore whaling logbook data
  • AOWL

Summary

  • "The American Offshore Whaling Logbook database, contains records transcribed from whaling log books giving information on the whales seen and captured. This database consolidates information from three projects, below, and adds data transcribed by Dale Chatwin, primarily for British Southern Whale Fishery voyages.." --American whaling logbook website, viewed 9/26/2024.
  • "The database of logbook entries includes information from 1,381 logbooks from American offshore whaling voyages between 1784 and 1920. These data were extracted from the original whaling logbooks during three separate scientific research projects, one conducted by Lt. Cmdr Matthew Fontaine Maury in the 1850s, the second conducted by Charles Haskins Townsend in the 1930s, and the third conducted by a team from the Census of Marine Life project (CoML, www.coml.org) led by Tim Denis Smith between 2000 and 2010. The Maury and Townsend data were assembled by the CoML team from archival sources. Logbook data for ten British Southern voyages was transcribed by Dale Chatwin and added to the consolidated data in 2024.." -- Consolidated logbook data website, viewed 9/26/2024.

Names

Created / Published

  • [New Bedford, MA] : New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc, [2024]

Headings

  • -  Whaling--United States--History

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Updated 6/26/2024 with data revised as of 4/3/2024." -- Download whaling history data website, viewed 9/26/2024
  • -  Title from README file, viewed 9/26/2024

Medium

  • Datasets

Call Number/Physical Location

  • SH383.2

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023514799

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Online Format

  • compressed data

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Chicago citation style:

New Bedford Whaling Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb, Nantucket Historical Association Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb, and Mystic Seaport Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb. American Offshore Whaling Logbook Data. [New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc, 2024] Software, E-Resource. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514799/.

APA citation style:

New Bedford Whaling Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb, Nantucket Historical Association Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb & Mystic Seaport Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb. (2024) American Offshore Whaling Logbook Data. [New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc] [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514799/.

MLA citation style:

New Bedford Whaling Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb, Nantucket Historical Association Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb, and Mystic Seaport Museum Issuing Body Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Isb. American Offshore Whaling Logbook Data. [New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc, 2024] Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514799/>.