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In 2012, University of Indiana professor Michael Wade spent a sabbatical at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. One of the things he brought with him from Bloomington to Durham was a plastic tub filled with the notebooks of his PhD supervisor, the late Thomas Park.

These notebooks contain the raw data for Park's famous competition experiments in the flour beetles Tribolium confusum and Tribolium castaneum (e.g. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1948641). Results from these experiments appear in most introductory ecology textbooks, yet the original raw data has never been available. The data currently exists on 3-ring binder pages, handwritten in pencil. Preservation and availability of the data depends on both digitization and transcription. Mike estimates that there are 660,000 lines of data in his possession.

These pages contain details of the digitization process.