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| Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria | | Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria | ||
| http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/index.php | | http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/index.php | ||
| Created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the taxonomic and environmental research community in North America. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data, starting with searching databased herbarium records. A suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of universities, museums, and agencies that provide taxonomic and environmental information. | | Created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the taxonomic and environmental research community in North America. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data, starting with searching databased herbarium records. A suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of universities, museums, and agencies that provide taxonomic and environmental information. | ||
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| CNALH | | CNALH | ||
| Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria | | Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria | ||
| http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ | | http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ | ||
| Created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the taxonomic and environmental research community in North America. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data, such as keying to species. A suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of universities, botanical gardens, museums, and agencies that provide taxonomic and environmental information. Initially created to integrate databases between Arizona State University and the Santa Barbara Botantical Garden, the consortium is growing to extend its network to other partners within North America. | | Created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the taxonomic and environmental research community in North America. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data, such as keying to species. A suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of universities, botanical gardens, museums, and agencies that provide taxonomic and environmental information. Initially created to integrate databases between Arizona State University and the Santa Barbara Botantical Garden, the consortium is growing to extend its network to other partners within North America. | ||
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| http://digbiocol.wordpress.com/ | | http://digbiocol.wordpress.com/ | ||
| An alliance that developed the strategic plan from which the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections was launched. | | An alliance that developed the strategic plan from which the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections was launched. | ||
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| Natural Science Collections Alliance | |||
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| The Natural Science Collections Alliance is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit association that supports natural science collections, their human resources, the institutions that house them, and their research activities for the benefit of science and society. Members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities. | |||
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| OpenStack | | OpenStack | ||