<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>Malcolm</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, David A. Bloom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dabblepop@gmail.com" target="_blank">dabblepop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Attention HerpNET2 and ORNIS2 data publishers and portal users.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:17.25px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:underline">On January 5, 2015, the HerpNET2 and ORNIS2 data portals will be taken offline and replaced with the VertNet data portal.</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">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 (</span><a href="http://www.vertnet.org/search" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.vertnet.org/search</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you have been a user of the HerpNET (</span><a href="http://www.herpnet2.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">www.herpnet2.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">) and ORNIS (</span><a href="http://ornis2.ornisnet.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://ornis2.ornisnet.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">) portals over the years, we encourage you to bookmark </span><a href="http://www.vertnet.org/search" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.vertnet.org/search</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> 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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The HerpNET (</span><a href="http://herpnet.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://herpnet.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">) and ORNIS (</span><a href="http://www.ornisnet.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.ornisnet.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">) project web sites will remain active into the foreseeable future. We look forward to serving you, and your data, via the VertNet data portal.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Best,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The VertNet Team</span></p><div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span></div>
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