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]
Das Museum für Tierkunde Dresden ist eines der bedeutenden deutschen zoologischen Forschungsmuseen, es verfügt über das derzeit modernste Wirbeltier-Präparatorium Europas. Seine Sammlungen umfassen mehr als 6 Millionen Tierpräparate, wovon auf die Wirbeltiere allein über 231.000 Objekte entfallen. Neben bedeutenden Spezialsammlungen aus weltweit verteilten Gebieten sind besonders die reichen Bestände an ausgerotteten Wirbeltierarten hervorzuheben. Das Museum für Tierkunde beschäftigt 10 Wissenschaftler und gibt 5 international beachtete zoologische Zeitschriftenreihen heraus ("Zoologische Abhandlungen", "Entomologische Abhandlungen", "Reichenbachia", "Malakologische Abhandlungen", "Faunistische Abhandlungen"). Das Museum gliedert sich in drei große Bereiche: 1. Vertebrata (Wirbeltiere), 2. Entomologie (Insektenkunde) und 3. Evertebrata varia (Wirbellose Tiere mit Ausnahme der Insekten). Die Forschungsschwerpunkte des Museums liegen auf der Erschließung der Biodiversität. Hierzu dienen die umfangreichen Tiersammlungen, die Vergleiche verschiedener Arten anhand morphologischer Merkmale erlauben. In jüngerer Zeit werden traditionelle zoologische Methoden, die statistische Unterschiede zwischen verschiedenen Arten herausarbeiten, zunehmend durch molekularbiologische und genetische Methoden ergänzt. Auch am Museum für Tierkunde kommen solche Verfahren zum Einsatz. Diese Grundlagenforschung ist die Basis für viele weitere, oft auch direkt anwendungsbezogene Disziplinen, wie Ökologie, Arten- oder Naturschutz. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
ZEFOD is an information system concerned with botanical and zoological collections in Germany. Besides an overview of the institutions holding collections, ZEFOD also contains general information about each of the collections as well as information about the institution (address, contact data) and general information about the collection (name, description, geographic and taxonomic points of emphasis, scientific advisor). ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
Our Museum forms a unit together with the Zoological Institute of Greifswald University. Our collections are fundamental to scientific research (research collection) and students´ teaching (demonstration collection). Moreover, part of the demonstration collection is open to the public (exhibition). [Information of the supplier]
The Zoological Institute is one of the oldest scientific institutions in St. Petersburg. In 2007 the institute became 175 years old although history of establishment of collections at the institute and the museum began much earlier, i.e. since the time of Peter the Great, who purchased exhibits for the Kunstkammer, the first Russian museum established by him in 1714. The first museum catalogue (1742) lists approximately 4000 representatives of mammals, birds, amphibians, fishes, insects and invertebrates, deposited in scientific collections of the Kunstkammer. The 18th century was the age of great expeditions including the famous academic expeditions of P.S. Pallas in the southern regions of Russia and Siberia. Extensive material collected during numerous marine and land expeditions of the early 19th century filled depository of the Kunstkammer. The official opening of the Zoological Museum took place in July 1832, which is accepted as the time of its foundation. Later the museum was transformed into the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Its scientific collections comprise approximately 60,000,000 items. The Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a leading research institution is one of the most significant zoological institutions in the world. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
