One of the largest of its kind in the United States, the Museum's scientific collection provides taxonomic, geographic, and chronological data about its molluscan holdings to a broad range of users in zoology, marine biology, genetics, conservation, geology, and other fields of science. For almost a year now, our collection catalog data has been available via the Museum’s web portal. In a major step to enhance the accessibility of the catalog, making it available to a much larger audience, catalog data are also available now via the global data aggregator iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections). This includes data related to 130,755 catalog lots, including 2,826 composite images.
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iDigBio integrates information from hundreds of natural history collections. Data aggregators such as iDigBio are the natural history equivalents of online travel resources like Expedia, Travelocity, or Orbitz. By performing a single search (instead of searching each airline) for your destination and travel dates, a given online agency will retrieve all the flights that fall within your choices. Likewise, iDigBio enables users, by performing a single search, to scour all those museum collections for records of, for example, the presence of a given species in an island through a given period of time.
Visit the Museum collection iDigBio page here; search by clicking “Search Recordset”.
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