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<p class="MsoNormal">To the <span style="color:#1F497D">NHCOLL-L</span> community:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum, is pleased to announce our new publicly accessible Virtual Microscopy website:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://peabody.yale.edu/invertebrate-zoology/virtual-microscopy">http://peabody.yale.edu/invertebrate-zoology/virtual-microscopy</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The VM site was developed as part of an NSF-CSBR sponsored project<span style="color:#1F497D"> titled</span>
<span style="color:#1F497D">“</span>CSBR Natural History Collections: Cataloging and Imaging the Yale Peabody Museum Invertebrate Zoology microscope slide collection<span style="color:#1F497D">”
</span>(Award #134911, Leo Buss PI, Eric Lazo-Wasem, Co-PIs). <span style="color:#1F497D">
It </span>comprises <span style="color:#1F497D">approximately</span> 4<span style="color:#1F497D">,</span>000 dynamic images created with a microscope based slide scanning system,
<span style="color:#1F497D">which are viewable</span> either as "pan and zoom" or variable focus "sliders<span style="color:#1F497D">.</span>"
<span style="color:#1F497D"> A </span>word cloud and thematic searches<span style="color:#1F497D"> are also available, and b</span>asic caption and image specific metadata are supplied, as well as
<span style="color:#1F497D">hyperlinks</span> <span style="color:#1F497D">from the images
</span>to the <span style="color:#1F497D">Peabody</span> collections portal<span style="color:#1F497D"> (</span><a href="http://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/">http://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/</a>)<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>for more details and access to downloadable static images<span style="color:#1F497D"> (f</span>ull data for more than 52,000 slides and static slide images are available at the portal).<span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Conceptualized by <span style="color:#1F497D">Curator </span>
Leo Buss and <span style="color:#1F497D">Senior Collections Manager </span>Eric Lazo-Wasem, the VM website<span style="color:#1F497D"> and the pipelines that connect it to the collections portal and YPM’s internal collections management systems,</span> w<span style="color:#1F497D">ere</span>
built by YPM Digital <span style="color:#1F497D">Media </span>Specialist Andrew Melien
<span style="color:#1F497D">(</span>with <span style="color:#1F497D">assistance</span>
<span style="color:#1F497D">from</span> Harry Shyket<span style="color:#1F497D"> at
</span>Yale ITS<span style="color:#1F497D">) and YPM Head of Computer Systems </span>
Lawrence Gall. <span style="color:#1F497D">Museum Asssitant </span>Daniel Drew was responsible for databasing the slide collection and scanned most of the hi-resolution images. The website and content are managed by Eric Lazo-Wasem and Daniel Drew, Division
of Invertebrate Zoology.<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>Slide images<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>are still being made and will be continually added until the end of the grant period, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric A. Lazo-Wasem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Collections Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peabody Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yale University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">170 Whitney Ave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New Haven, CT 06520<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">203 432-3784<o:p></o:p></p>
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