The entomological collections are of great historical importance and represent one of the best entomological resources in the United Kingdom. They began with the bequest by the Reverend Frederick W. Hope of his entire collection in 1849. The Hope Professors, Westwood, Poulton, Hale Carpenter and Varley also amassed large amounts of material, both through their own research, and from donations by other contemporary entomologists. ... [Information of the supplier]
Arctos integrates specimen data, scientific results, and extensive collection-management tools in order to facilitate and demonstrate the use of biological collections. Most of what is known about a specimen can be included in Arctos, and, except for rare data encumbered for proprietary reasons, data are accessible to the public. Arctos integrates with BerkeleyMapper and GenBank, and a DiGIR provider supplies various federated portals (e.g., GBIF). Arctos is currently three independent clones. One is a multi-hosting version at the University of Alaska that includes collections at the U of A Museum of the North, the University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology, and Western New Mexico State University. A second clone will be running in 2007 at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. A third clone is under development by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Arctos is largely based on the Collections Information System at MVZ. Development efforts are being shared, and programming is freely available. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn is one of the largest institutions in Germany combining natural history collections and research activities. The museum comprises, among others, extensive special collections of vertebrates and insects from terrestrial habitats. [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
You can use the general search at the top of every page to find a particular fish by its scientific, common or family name or use the fish finders on the Find a fish page to locate your species of interest. [Information of the supplier, modified]
With support from the National Science Foundation, seventeen North American institutions and their collaborators developed the Mammal Networked Information System. The original objectives of MaNIS were to 1) facilitate open access to combined specimen data from a web browser, 2) enhance the value of specimen collections, 3) conserve curatorial resources, and 4) use a design paradigm that can be easily adopted by other disciplines with similar needs. As an NSF-funded initiative, MaNIS has achieved these objectives while avoiding the need for long-term, external maintenance of the network and centralized data management. The MaNIS network provides access to mammal specimen records from a variety of museum collection databases via several equivalent portals (see the MaNIS Network Architecture diagram, below). A portal presents web pages from which a user can send requests for data and visualize the results. Requests for data pass through provider software installed on computers at the participating institutions. Individual institutions determine which data are made accessible to the public and format their data to agree with the community-determined standard (in this case the Darwin Core). Depending on their individual requirements, institutions may serve data to the public directly from their working collection databases, or they may serve data via a separate public database to which data are periodically migrated. These public databases may be within the same institutions (local snapshot), or they may be hosted at a collaborating institution (hosted snapshot). By participating in MaNIS, institutions also provide data via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology hat inherited to build up the node "Evertebrata II" within GBIF Germany. Tasks and organisation struktur are shown under the marked hyperlinks. Beside the colleagues of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, collaborators from the museums of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cismar are participating. Another important partner is the SysTax-project, which provides the portal to show the data on the internet. ... [Information of the supplier]
GBIF Evertebrata III stellt ein Teilprojekt (oder sog. "Knoten") der Initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (= GBIF) Deutschland dar und erfasst als Teilknoten vor allem die Gruppe der marinen Evertebraten. GBIF hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, alle Informationen zur biologischen Vielfalt, die in Deutschland verfügbar sind, unter einem Dach zu bündeln und über ihre Einstiegsseiten zu erschließen. Die Webseite verweist vor allem auf die Teilprojekte verschiedener Forschungsinstitute wie z.B. das Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg und zahlreiche Typensammlungen anderer Einrichtungen. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
GBIF Vertebrata stellt ein Teilprojekt (oder sog. "Knoten") der Initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (= GBIF) Deutschland dar. Die GBIF hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, alle Informationen zur biologischen Vielfalt, die in Deutschland verfügbar sind, unter einem Dach zu bündeln und über ihre Einstiegsseiten zu erschließen. Oberstes Ziel dieses Projektteiles ist die Erfassung der Primärtypen von Wirbeltieren in deutschen Forschungsmuseen. Durch die Digitalisierung der Sammlungsdaten von Primärtypen wird eine international verfügbare, die nationalen Bestände erschließende solide Basis zur Erleichterung der internationalen taxonomischen Forschung und der allgemeinen Biodiversitätsforschung geschaffen. Der Teilknoten Vertebrata umfaßt alle Wirbeltiergruppen. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
Over 5 million bird specimens are housed in North American collections, documenting the composition, distribution, ecology, and systematics of the world's estimated 10,000-16,000 bird species. Millions of additional observational records are held in diverse data sets. ORNIS addresses the urgent call for increased access to these data in an open and collaborative manner, and involves development of a suite of online software tools for data analysis and error-checking. This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, expands on existing infrastructure developed for distributed mammal (MaNIS), amphibian and reptile (HerpNet), and fish (FishNet) databases. ... [Information of the supplier]
HerpNET is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303) and a GBIF DIGIT grant. The mission of HerpNET is to bring the accumulated knowledge from more than four million specimens in world-wide museum collections into currency for science and society by creating a distributed database with access from various portals. HerpNET will connect large repositories of information with smaller collections that have regional specializations. ... [Information of the supplier]