A catalogue of bird bones: an exercise in semantic web practice

The vast databases of natural history collections are increasingly being made accessible through the internet. The challenge is to place this data in a wider context that may reach beyond the interests of scholars only. The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and Icelandic Institute of Natural H...

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Main Authors: Gudmundsson, Gudmundur, Brewington, Seth D., McGovern, Thomas H., Petersen, Aevar
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10077/3769
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Summary:The vast databases of natural history collections are increasingly being made accessible through the internet. The challenge is to place this data in a wider context that may reach beyond the interests of scholars only. The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and Icelandic Institute of Natural History are jointly developing a web based catalogue of bird bones, comprising digital images, and related information from the museum database. Linking the bird bone catalogue with the semantic web developed by STERNA will integrate the bird bone catalogue with diverse information on birds that is directed towards the general public.