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Coming soon...
In this period of growing reliance on electronic
communication, our website will soon be undergoing a major
renovation for improved access to information and
interactive capabilities for online queries of the specimens
located at LSAM. We will include access to our
Specify 6.1
database, searchable to the public by
SilverCollection web portal software. This will enable
the public to browse taxonomy, view checklists by region and taxon, view interactive maps, and search the collection of
>100,000 databased specimens. The collection will be queried
by multiple filters, including:
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Taxonomy
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Region
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Locality
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Collector
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Year collected
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And much more.
The database will be easy to query, easy to comprehend, and
useful for collecting distribution information. This
will also be an excellent resource for those researchers
interested in requesting a loan.
As the LSAM increases data entry, we anticipate this section
to grow significantly. A future project includes the
association of high-quality, Auto-Montage photos with each
species.
The
searchable database via the SilverCollection web portal
is underway, so please
visit us often as we plan to reveal it on 1 November 2009.
Status: 18 January 2010. We are still working with the folks
at Specify to sort out some problems related to our
migration from Biota to Specify. These were having
downstream effects on how the data were being harvested for
the online interface. We are finally about to get the issues
resolved.
Web portal access will be available through this link.
For a Youtube demo on SilverCollection,
click
here.
To gain an immediate understanding of the advanced
capabilities of SilverCollection, please visit our companion
LSU Herbarium
database.

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