Louisiana State

Louisiana State Arthropod Museum

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:

Taxonomy
Region
Locality
Collector
Year collected
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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