The Florida Museum of Natural History and partners are honored to host the 30th Annual SPNHC General Meeting. The meetings will be a week long and are scheduled for May 17, 2015 to May 23, 2015. Traditional symposia, general sessions, tradeshow, demo camps and workshops are currently being planned. These will be held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center across from the UF campus and the Florida Museum of Natural History. In addition to the above conference events, we will have various fieldtrips, a plenary session and social events culminating in the 30th Annual SPNHC gala. The overall theme of the conference will be Making Natural History Collections Accessible through New and Innovative Approaches and Partnerships, which we hope will be an opportunity to link the collections at the heart of our institutions to the demands and uses these collections are addressing in the 21st century. ... [Information of the supplier]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Triple A-S" (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide. ... [Information of the supplier]
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the leading institutions in scientific and cultural research worldwide. It was founded in 1869 and is situated in the Central Park in New York. Several departments (anthropology, geology, palaeontology and zoology) contribute significantly to the discovery of natural history. Furthermore the collection grew of the centuries (more than 30 million objects) and therefore is of worldwide relevance. Many special and permanent exibitions gain an insight into nature and the mankind's cultural development. A special online platform for children is available, allow a easy overview of natural science and coherences. The library host one of the most comprehensive collections of the world. Some contents are accessible online (own publications, as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
avhumboldt.de. Alexander von Humboldt Informationen online. is an online information platform about worldwide activities regarding Humboldt. It is also the succeeding project of Alexander von Humboldt im Netz (www.humboldt-im-netz.de), which has been collecting and commenting information and marterials about the life and achievements of Alexander von Humboldt since 1999. avhumboldt.de. Humboldt Informationen online. wants to be an introduction to this great scientist and erudite, present worldwide activities around Humboldt and bundle them in one location, familiarize more people with „Humboldtian Science“ and serve as a research archive for both a specialized as well as wider audience, provide materials, subject-matters, primary and secondary sources concerning Humboldt, dynamically intertwine the many facets of scholarship on Humboldt, be open for you! – we look forward to your comments and contributions! ... [Information of the supplier]
The Naturhistorische Museum - Natural History Museum - was set up again after the devastating fire of 1865 by the Admont Benedictine Father Gabriel Strobl in the years 1866 to 1910. In his scientific activity Father Gabriel Strobl built up a huge insect collection with roughly 252,000 specimens, with the collection of about 80,000 flies being one of the three most important in Europe. Through his own collecting, exchange, buying and in the form of gifts Father Gabriel Strobl acquired over 44 years the collection that can be admired in the partly newly planned Natural History Museum. A glass-case ribbon stretches for about 24 metres and shows in texts, pictures and exhibits the historical development of the Natural History Museum. The first side room is dedicated to Father Gabriel Strobl’s life work. His scientific and artistic work is described in a large table glass-case, while an exhibition of various insect groups can be seen on the walls. The second side room presents all 243 examples of the wax fruits made by Father Constantin Keller (1778-1864) in an impressive installation. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
For several years, together with various Austrian publishers of scientific journals in biology and earth sciences, there has been an attempt to make publications in the form of citations and PDF documents available. More than 400,000 pages already exist and another 200,000 will follow in 2009. The PDF documents are completely OCRed, or are produced directly from digital layouts, so their content can be copied to a text editor. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
CalPhotos is a collection of 400,000+ images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes. A variety of organizations and individuals have contributed photographs to CalPhotos. The taxonomic and geographic information that accompanies the photos, along with the expert annotation system, result in a uniquely useful database for scientists, students, and other people interested in natural history. In addition to numerous ways to search the photos, common and scientific name browse lists and photo thumbnail browse lists add functionality for people searching for specific photos or taxa via web search engines, and make browsing easy and user-friendly. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Digital Academic Repository of Naturalis is a service which is part of a national and international network of scientific and scholarly information services. In the Naturalis repository, the scientific staff of Naturalis stores the electronic version of its publications for future use. The repository also makes sure that references to the publications become available within a international network of information services, hereby increasing the visibility of the publications. ... [Information of the supplier]
GeoCASe (Geosciences Collection Access Service) is an extended version of BioCASE (Biological Collection Access Service), which is a transnational network of biological collections of all kinds, using an XML-based ABCD ("Access to Biological Collection Database") schema. For our purpose the ABCD schema was extended to ABCDEFG ("ABCD Extended for Geosciences"). Making geosciences collection data openly and universally available to foster scientific research development internationally and to support the public use of these data are the goals and principles of GeoCASe. ... [Information of the supplier]
Das Haus der Natur besteht seit dem Jahr 1924. Es versteht sich als Schau-Museum mit sowohl regionaler als auch internationaler Ausrichtung sowie als ein vielseitiges Natur-Kompetenzzentrum für Stadt und Land Salzburg. Als Schau-Museum will das Haus der Natur möglichst viele Besucher für die verschiedensten Facetten der Natur begeistern, ihnen ein Naturverständnis vermitteln und einen Weg in die Natur weisen. Dazu wird versucht, die verschiedensten Themenbereiche der Natur - einschließlich des Menschen möglichst lebendig und abwechslungsreich zu vermitteln. Bereits der Gründer des Hauses der Natur, Eduard Paul Tratz, war in dieser Hinsicht ein Wegbereiter einer modernen, lebendigen Museumsdidaktik. Seither wird versucht, diesen Weg konsequent fortzusetzen. Immer wieder werden neue Zugänge und Präsentationsmöglichkeiten gesucht und neue, aktuelle Inhalte aufbereitet - in Dauerausstellungen genauso wie in ständig wechselnden Sonderschauen. ... [Information des Anbieters]