Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria (http://museumvictoria.com.au/) is making a range of species information and data from its natural history collections available through the Atlas of Living Australia.
Contribution to the ALA
During 2007-2008 Museum Victoria will be developing a range of content for the Atlas, including:
- Specimen data from the museum's marine and terrestrial collections
- Images of primary type specimens of Australian insects, mollusca, mammals, lizards, snakes, amphibians and birds
- Images of native and exotic pests established in Australia, served from the Pests and Diseases Image Library (PaDIL)
- Commitment to fund two fulltime registration staff to data capture Natural Science specimens
- Commitment to host the OZCAM web portal which will deliver data to ALA
Entomology cabinet drawers - Photograph Ken Walker © Museum Victoria