Like insects? Then you'll love this error without virtual museum online!
Luckily, I found several videos that deal with a fabulous new project: the development of a museum collection of the scanned line. Below the jump is a video that shows InvertNet. This virtual museum online feature more than 50 million insects and arthropods digitized samples. These samples, some of which are up to 160 years - took place in real life, the collections of 22 institutions throughout the Midwest United States.
These collections are irreplaceable because of the age of the specimens, their absolute number and size of the geographical area in which they were collected. But it's the same reason that these collections have been largely inaccessible to scientists and the general public. Why keep these collections, so few people are aware of them, still less can actually access it?
But now, thanks to the wonders of the digital age (and a small grant from the National Science Foundation), the 2D and 3D images of all these copies are available -
free
. And more detailed images of prints, including images of InvertNet data labels on each specimen, and links to popular online identification as BugGuide.net, and a database.
This museum will be available online to anyone anywhere in the world (with Internet access) for research and education. It will be particularly useful for localization and identification of species, pest management and ecology, biogeography and climate change studies. But even more interesting, in my opinion, is InvertNet model for how to develop a museum collection online to meet the needs and uses of the online community - InvertNet teachings are applicable to other types of biological collections .
So if you are a teacher, a scientist, an admirer of creatures without spines or a fan or a developer of online digital resources, I think you'll enjoy exploring the museum online! All you have to do is create an account (free) and the doors are open for you!
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