The Data Services Brown Bag lunch, held on Thursday, November 30, 2006, featured presentations from several Berkeley Natural History Museums (BNHM) partners on biodiversity informatics, as well as an overview of the BNHM-IST Re-Architecting Program, and drew considerable audience interest and discussion.
Slides from these presentations - all in PowerPoint format - are now available:
Moorea Biocode Project
An ambitious project to identify all animal life on land and sea in a complete tropical ecosystem on the South Pacific island of Moorea, using traditional techniques along with cutting edge DNA-based “biocoding.”
(Christopher Meyer)
Note: this is a 60 MB download, and the presentation loads a large number of images at startup.
Collection Management at the MVZ
History of the management of the vast collections of animal specimens and related data at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. This work is conducted today via Arctos, a multi-institution museum database, along with a rich and complex data model.
(Carla Cicero)
Berkeley Mapper
Online tool for plotting collections of points on worldwide maps, using a mashup of Google Maps, Terraserver, and other mapping tools, and permitting rapid visualization of location-based data.
(John Deck)
Note: this is a 6 MB download.
BNHM-IST Rearchitecting
Rearchitecting the IT systems of the Berkeley Natural History Museums, in partnership with Information Services and Technology.
(David Greenbaum and Chris Hoffman)
