Electronic Access to collection databases / ITF

[Ken Walker]

Collection Management Databases to HTML

We too have been experimenting with internet access to our specimen
databases, in particular for a state wide school interface project with
access to our butterfly, snake and frog data sets.  Therefore, for public
access, value adding to the data was done through the addition of a
virtual species record.  This new record contains such information as
common name (at ranks order, family and species), host plant or symbiotic
relationships, venom toxicity etc.

The query is made on the database and the answers are returned through a
html filter to create either classification outputs, checklists,
distribution maps with GIS overlays, species / area matrix, graphs, images
etc.  The results demonstrate the value of large museum collections that
allow spatial and time based queries.

If anyone is interested in testing the "First Go" Version, have a look at:

http://pioneer.mov.vic.gov.au/chaec/butter/home.html

Ken
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Dr Ken Walker                           kwalker at mov.vic.gov.au
Museum Victoria
Conservation and Environment
71 Victoria Crescent                    telephone 61-3 9284 0201
Abbotsford  Victoria                    fax       61-3 9416 0475
Australia  3067
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Eric Gouda wrote:

> ITF to HTML
>
> We (Utrecht Univ. Botanic Gardens) are experimenting a way of presenting our
> accession data on the Web. We do not have an Internet engine for our
> database, so we export the data into the ITF (International Transfer Format)
> and use a TAXASOFT program to convert this file into HTML (ITF2HTML.exe).
> This could be used by others, when ITF files can be created from the database.
>
> If anyone is interested, have a look on URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/collection/
>
> Eric
>
> <snip>
> >Does anyone who has data currently accessible on the web in this way
> >have any information on the number of hits per month/year, and
> >different countries accessing data this way?
> >
> >Any responses appreciated!
>
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