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- Subject: Workshop on Museum Databases
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- Second Workshop on the Computerization
- of Natural History Collections
-
- 13-18 November 1992
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- A workshop on the computerization of natural history collections
- is being sponsored by the Harvard University Herbaria, the MUSE
- Project of Cornell University and the Museum Informatics Project
- of the University of California at Berkeley. Funding will be
- provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
-
- The workshop is intended to explore and define technical
- approaches for community-wide support of the computerization of
- natural history museum specimens. Targeted participants include
- museum personnel with database backgrounds, LTER data managers
- with experience in community information systems, and academic or
- library information specialists with experience in community-wide
- database architectures or authority file management. The
- workshop will cover various institutional and technical aspects
- of developing shared community information resources, community-
- wide information and database models capable of supporting
- autonomous institutional databases, data communication
- architectures for community support, and discipline-wide virtual
- networks over the Internet. The workshop will also pursue
- technical avenues for the integration of museum specimen
- information within other academic and research information
- communities, such as the NSF Long Term Ecological Research
- Program, Campus-Wide Information Systems and the libraries.
-
- Several network and database tutorials are planned utilizing
- academic and commercial software. Specific applications include:
- WAIS, Gopher, Internet-bridged local-area-networks and various
- client/server database systems.
-
- Participants with a museum background will be expected to have a
- working understanding of modern database management technology
- and museum collection data types, and will have demonstrated
- experience in the design and development of research information
- systems or in the support of multi-user biological databases.
- Museum applicants will be selected so as to ensure broad
- taxonomic representation from both large and small institutions.
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- Academic candidates from non-biological fields with technical
- expertise in community-wide information systems, community
- authority file management, or with experience in the modelling,
- design or implementation of partially-replicated database
- architectures are also strongly encouraged to apply.
-
- The workshop will be held at the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
- of Michigan State University on 13-18 November, 1992.
- Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on September 4.
- Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by September 29.
- Travel, lodging and meal expenses will be covered, contingent on
- funding.
-
- For further information, contact Jim Beach, preferably by email
- at: workshop@huh.harvard.edu, by fax: (617) 495-9484, or by mail
- at the address below.
-
- Individuals who applied, but who were not accepted, for the
- workshop held at UC Berkeley in May, 1992, may reactivate their
- existing application for this workshop by indicating their
- interest to the organizers via mail or email by the application
- deadline.
-
- Applicants must submit a letter (2 page maximum) explaining their
- interest and relevant background with a concise resume or vita.
- Receipt of applications will be acknowledged.
-
- Mail THREE copies of completed applications to:
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- Dr. James H. Beach
- Harvard University Herbaria
- 22 Divinity Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02138 U. S. A.
-
-
- or email one complete application by the deadline to:
-
- workshop@huh.harvard.edu
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