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
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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
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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
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Darwin Core Profile
(for natural history specimen and observation databases)
Other Useful Links
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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
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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
