[Nhcoll-l] Exciting news about VertNet - new portal up!

[Carla Cicero]

NHCOLL - I am posting this message with exciting news from Dave Bloom to
VertNet users -  past, present and future:

After a very long time the new VertNet portal has been released! Same
address, new look (https://www.vertnet.org).

A lot has changed and almost all of it is good and necessary. More options
for search, media and images, literature, and maps that really work! There
are a few million more records and about 100 new datasets (and we’ll keep
adding them). It’s also taken a huge step toward sustainability, so your
data and the data you’re looking for will be available more quickly and
will always be current.

The portal is now utilizing GBIF’s infrastructure (thanks @GBIF), which
means stuff won’t just disappear like it did recently with the old portal.
When something breaks, now we’ll have somebody who can help us to get it
fixed pronto! It also means that you’ll benefit from download DOIs, too. Of
course, you’ll have to get yourself a GBIF <https://www.gbif.org/> account
for that, but registration is free and easy.

No doubt there will be bugs and breaks, but we’ll get those fixed as
quickly as they are reported to us. No doubt, too, that some of you will
feel nostalgic for the classic VertNet look from the good ol’ days. We get
it. You are allowed to recognize the passing of a trusted tool, but we
needed to move on and we did it on a shoe-string budget and in our copious
free time (that was real sarcasm). Seriously though, the look may be a
little or a lot different, but your access to biodiversity data with
backbone has just increased significantly.

To learn more about all of the changes on the new site – be sure to click “Why
is Everything Different?
<https://www.vertnet.org/post/2025/vertnet-is-all-new/>”, just under the
new search bar on the home page to read about all of the goodness that
awaits you. Of course, you may contact Dave Bloom or use the Contact link,
to get in touch if you have questions, need a tutorial, something doesn’t
work, or if you don’t see datasets, institutions or features that you
expect to be a part of VertNet. If we can fix it or add it, we’ll take care
of it as quickly as we can.

So let us know how it goes and together we can build a better portal
together - again.

Thanks,
Dave

David Bloom
Ranges Network Project Manager <http://www.ranges-network.org/>
TDWG Chair <https://www.tdwg.org/about/executive/>
GBIF North America Regional Representative
<https://www.gbif.org/contact-us/directory?group=nsg>
VertNet Project Manager <http://vertnet.org/>
VertNet Head of Delegation/Node Manager
<https://www.gbif.org/participant/361>
ORCID: 0000-0003-1273-1807 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1273-1807>

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Carla Cicero, Ph.D
Emeritus Staff Curator of Birds
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3160
Cell: (925) 787-0298

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