Related Resources

Related University of Michigan Resources

• Exhibit Museum of Natural History
• Animal Diversity Web
• Fun Facts About Fungi
• Tools and Resources for Systematics Research
• Image Services

Related Projects & Organizations Elsewhere

• Linking Florida's Natural Heritage
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Electronic Natural History Museum Project
• FishBase: A Global Information System on Fishes
• Species 2000: Indexing the world's known species
• Tree of Life
• World Biodiversity Database
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• Specify Project
• Species Analyst
• BioCISE (Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe)
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Collections and Research Information System (CRIS)
• Smart Web Exhibits
• The Virtual Australian Herbarium
• Plant Information Center Project
• vPlants - A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region
• NSF SMETE-Lib Study
  A study of the potential impact of digital libraries on undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education (SMETE)

Standards and Metadata Resources

• Standards, Information Models, and Data Dictionaries for Biological Collections

(maintained by the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases)

• Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
• Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy Data Standard
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Darwin Core Profile
  (for natural history specimen and observation databases)

Other Useful Links

• Natural History Museums and Collections and Natural History Libraries
  (an impressive collection of links courtesy of the Natural History Caucus, Special Libraries Association)
• Museum Informatics Project
• CIMI--Computer Interchange of Museum Information
• BIOSIS Internet Resource Guide for Zoology: Systematics, taxonomy & nomenclature
• BioCISE Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe. Results of the Concerted Action Project
  (Berendsohn, W. G. (ed.), Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe (BioCISE). - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics.)
• USGS Great Lakes Science Center
• International Association for Great Lakes Research
• Great Lakes Information Network