[Nhcoll-l] HerpNET and ORNIS Shutdown Notice

[malcolm McCallum]

You might consider placing a forwarder at the old herp and bird databases
because if a paper was previously published that cited that database, a
reader may not be familiar with the migration leaving a dead link.

Malcolm

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, David A. Bloom <dabblepop at gmail.com> wrote:

> Attention HerpNET2 and ORNIS2 data publishers and portal users.
>
> On January 5, 2015, the HerpNET2 and ORNIS2 data portals will be taken
> offline and replaced with the VertNet data portal.
>
> The VertNet Project has continued to maintain these data portals well
> beyond the tenure of their dedicated staff and funding sources. Now it is
> time for VertNet to complete the consolidation of these portals into a
> single vertebrate data portal and to focus its remaining resources on the
> growth and support of the VertNet data portal (
> http://www.vertnet.org/search).
>
> If you have been a user of the HerpNET (www.herpnet2.org) and ORNIS (
> http://ornis2.ornisnet.org/) portals over the years, we encourage you to
> bookmark http://www.vertnet.org/search where you’ll find all the same
> great data, plus a bunch of datasets currently unavailable in the classic
> portals.  Even better, the new portal provides great services and ways to
> discover data that far exceed what was previously available in the legacy
> networks.
>
> We wish to acknowledge and thank all of the institutions who have provided
> their data to these networks, as well as each individual who worked to
> build these communities, develop the technical tools, and share their
> wisdom via workshops and training courses.  VertNet would not be what it is
> today without your effort and enthusiasm. An additional tip of our hat goes
> to the folks at Tulane University for hosting these portals over the last
> several years.
>
> The HerpNET (http://herpnet.org/) and ORNIS (http://www.ornisnet.org/)
> project web sites will remain active into the foreseeable future. We look
> forward to serving you, and your data, via the VertNet data portal.
>
> Best,
>
> The VertNet Team
>
>
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Malcolm L. McCallum
Department of Environmental Studies
Green Mountain College

Managing Editor,
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