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Re: [school-discuss] important new biology resource for teachers@ http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/
Hi, Mike: Did you see any red flags with this?
Anyway, I followed the directions, and the list owner is going to
contact me regarding just what my interest is in this project, and
whether I qualify to participate. Maybe not all of this work with NSF
grant funding will be available to the general education community.
I'll keep you posted.
Sure looks like one aspect is most intriguing. That of each and every
community starting a mammal-Z-net club, much along the lines of
community bird watchers' clubs, only with Digital Age technology added,
and centralized organization built in. Nice. Schools should love this
project. I know Open Studios would be well-suited to adding such a
program for its' communities.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
Reno, NV
mike eschman wrote:
hello,
this is a classic example of how developing software to fill a real need
results in real and useful product development.
that happens less than 1 out of a hundred times in information technology,
and that (1% success rate) is a good bit higher than anything the eductation
community has any right to expect this century, judging by current results.
read on :
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/
With support from the National Science Foundation, seventeen North American
institutions and their collaborators are developing a network of distributed
databases of mammal specimen data. The objectives of this Mammal Networked
Information System (MaNIS) are to 1) facilitate open access to combined
specimen data from a web browser, 2) enhance the value of specimen
collections, 3) conserve curatorial resources, and 4) use a design paradigm
that can be easily adopted by other disciplines with similar needs. MaNIS is
designed to achieve these objectives while avoiding both the long-term,
external maintenance of a network and the centralized management of data.
Development of this networked information system addresses the urgent call for
natural history museums to come together to build and support a biodiversity
informatics infrastructure in an open, collaborative manner. This combined
store of biodiversity knowledge will allow the predictive use of these data
to reveal patterns and processes of evolutionary and ecological phenomena
that have not been apparent heretofore. It also provides ready access to
detailed knowledge about the earth's biodiversity as we face the challenges
of the 21st century.
mike eschman, etc ...
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