In a museum, a book may betested by reference to a specimen or a series of specimens drawn from the

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In a museum, a book may betested by reference
to a specimen or a series of specimens drawn from
the range and laid beside it. Corrections of and
additions to the published literature of
descriptive natural history are an essential
aspect of museum studies.
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Linking Floridas Natural Heritage Science
Citizenry
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Virtual Library on Floridas
Species/Ecosystem Database creation
Thesaurus construction Z39.50 interface to
permit retrieval of museum records and
related literature Transparent common/
scientific name mapping to facilitate
non- scientist use
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DATABASES CREATIONFlorida Environments
OnlineLFNH Core Collection of200 Digitized
Texts
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• Florida Environments Online Database
• 8 merged research bibliographies
• Florida Ecosystems, by Dr. John Ewel
• Florida Ornithology, by the Florida
• Ornithological Society
• Fishes of Florida, by George Burgess
• Florida Herpetology, by Kevin Enge
• Florida Geology, by Dr. Anthony Randazzo
• Bibliography of Literature Useful to the Study
• of Florida Plants, by Kent Perkins
• Florida Freshwater Environments, by Tom
• Savage and Landon Ross
• Florida Agricultural History, by Dr. Vernon
• Kisling

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Digitization of 200 seminal works on
Florida's species and ecosystems Botany Entomolog
y Florida Fish Florida Freshwater
Ecosystems Florida Geology Florida Natural
Systems Florida Terrestrial Systems Herpetology Ma
rine Resources Non-indigenous SpeciesOrnithology
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Taxonomic enhancements
Geospatial enhancements
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Florida Biotic
Information Consortium (FBIC)
Sixth Annual Workshop
 
 
Florida Environments Online Database
27-28 January 2000
 
Computer Lab, Library West Room 148
University of FloridaGainesville,
Florida   This meeting is a two day workshop to
teach librarians, researchers, and
agency/organization staff how to contribute to
the statewide Florida Environments Online
Database (FEOL).
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New FEOL collaborators

• NOAA Miami Regional Library
• Florida Marine Research Institute
• Florida Department of Agriculture
• Consumer Affairs, Division of
• Plant Industry
• Florida Fish Wildlife Conservation
• Commission

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Linking specimen recordsand bibliographic
recordsthe common name dilemma
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Common Name to ScientificName Matrix

• Created by a student under the supervision of
• Dr. Wayne King, Curator of Herpetology at the
  Florida Museum of Natural History,
• this matrix is invisible to the user and hooks
  common names to species names when museum record
  searches are initiated.

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The hidden matrix creates the search
statementAlligator gar or Atractosteus 
spatulawhich allows you to search museum
records by common name.
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Create a Z39.50 search interface to
simultaneously access, retrieve, and merge
information from museum data and bibliographic
files.
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Potential Uses of the Project

• For research in
• Systematics
• Environmental impact studies
• Setting priorities for land acquisition for parks
  sanctuaries
• Floral Faunal restoration studies

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In EducationFlorida Law mandates the
teaching of environmental sciences in school

• Species found in state, county, local area
• Literature and websites related to those species
• Identify individuals who contributed to natural
  history study in Florida

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The Future

• Develop educational components
• Biodiversity lesson plans for 9th and 10th grade
  biology and environmental science students are
  being created on 
• 1.  Identifying, examining, and protecting
  biodiversity.
• 2.  Museums, scientists, and their roles in
  society.
• 3.  What's in a name?  Taxonomic basics
• 4.  Populations on the move  Looking at exotic
  invasive species in Florida.
• 5.  Waging war over water  Who are the
  stakeholders and what are their needs?  

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Build the FEOL database including relevant Web
sites Web-based input form to permit distributed
basic record creation by anyone. Records
submitted will be reviewed and enhanced. Addition
al training sessions will be scheduled throughout
the state. Future database additions Florida
Water Resources Bibliography, by Joe Hand,
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
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Expand the number of Florida specimen
collections that can be searched Z39.50 in
Museums a workshop for Floridas collections
will be held May 10-11, 2000 at the Florida
Center for Library Automation, Gainesville, FL
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Build a GIS component to enhance geospatial
accessand usefulness in species/land use studies
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