Acadia Wildlife Museum inventory

Data Rescue Intern: Eniola Oni

In the Spring/Summer of 2025, I completed a data rescue internship for the Acadia Wildlife Museum. This internship was facilitated by CIEE's the Living Data Project. I worked on rescuing thousands of collections records from the 1920s to present day. They included rare species and items that can no longer be collected. I moved these records from an old computer and outdated software, Filemaker pro 12, cleaned them using R programming and moved them into Specify 7, an open-source biological data management platform. Some of these collections were then published on GBIF. It was a beautiful experience for me as I got to see and appreciate the work that goes into keeping records alive.