Re: [school-discuss] important new biology resource for teachers @ http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

hello,

the red flags are the same for everything with federal money attached :-)

i'm on their list too.

mikke eschman, etc ...


On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:58 pm, tompoe@renonevada.net wrote:
> 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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