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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We’re so excited to see our data accessible online that we had to share! Happy Friday!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Mammalogy and Oology Data Live Online!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>As of April 15, 2015 the Chicago Academy of Sciences’ mammalogy and oology collection data is searchable by anyone with access to the internet.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><img width=325 height=217 id="Picture_x0020_0" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D07936.7660E1C0" alt="ChAS MAM 1506.1.jpg"> <img width=144 height=216 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D07936.7660E1C0" alt="OOL 1137 Ruby throated hummingbird"><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Data from our mammalogy (4,643 mammal specimens) and oology (9,075 bird eggs and nests) collections is now part of three data aggregator websites: VertNet, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and iDigBio! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are actively working on preparing datasets from our ornithology and herpetology collections to publish to these sites within the next few months. Stay tuned!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It was great to work with the folks at VertNet and we highly recommend them as a resource for publishing collections data. In particular, we don’t have an online database yet ourselves, and this is a great avenue to broaden the accessibility to our data. In addition, we found that the process of cleaning and uploading data to VertNet helped us prepare our data for migration to a new database.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dawn Roberts | Collections Manager <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | Main 773-755-5100 | Fax 773-549-0344 | www.naturemuseum.org <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Museum Collections and Archives, Collections Facility and Office<br>4001 N Ravenswood Avenue, Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613 | Direct 773-755-5125 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>