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Woods Hole has always been a focal point for scientific innovation. Join us to learn how the MBLWHOI Library* is developing novel and integrated systems and solutions to
promote discovery and dissemination of scholarly scientific literature and data.
*MBLWHOI is jointly operated by Marine Biological Institution and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration
9:30 am – 9:45 am Welcoming remarks
9:45 am –10:30 am MBLWHOI Library Digital Herbarium – Amy Stout and Joe DeVeer
The Digital Herbarium is a project to digitize the Library’s collection of 8,000 vascular and non-vascular plant specimens. Images along with species and specimen-related data will be
freely available on the Internet via a fully searchable database that links out to other digital initiatives such as NCBI’s Entrez Taxonomy Browser or AlgaeBase. This presentation
discusses the value of the project, and the technical and botanical background of the database, highlighting use of Endeavor’s Voyager and ImageServer software.
MBLWHOI LIBRARY DIGITAL HERBARIUM URL: www.mbl.edu/herbarium
10:30 am-11:15 am Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBIO) – David Remsen
uBio is an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative catalog of names of all living (and once-living) organisms. The Taxonomic Name Server catalogs names and classifications and creates applications that can help users find information on living things using any of the names that may be related to an organism. As libraries digitize and index older publications, uBio provides tools to retrieve literature regardless of naming conventions in use at the time of publication.
uBio URL: www.ubio.org
11:15 am-12:00 pm Tours of MBL’s Marine Resources Center and the MBLWHOI Library.
12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm- 1:45 pm Woods Hole Open Access server (WHOAS) – Ann Devenish
WHOAS is an open archive, web-based institutional repository for Woods Hole scientific content. It is accessible to metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH) and allows for the free dissemination of scholarly communication. WHOAS will eventually host a variety of digital objects including technical reports, articles, books, data sets, images, etc. It is hosted by the MBLWHOI Library to serve the multiple science institutions within the community of Woods Hole. This presentation will discuss the pilot project that launched WHOAS and will include a brief demonstration.
1:45 pm- 2:00 pm Closing remarks
2:00 pm- 4:00 pm Tours of WHOI Data Library and Archives and NOAA Aquarium
Register online at this link
Questions?
Please contact – Nancy Stafford at (508) 289-7436
or at nstafford@mbl.edu
Cost:
SLA
Member: $24
Non-Member: $34
Students/Retirees/Between Jobs: $14
A box lunch is included in registration fee. Registration and payment must be received by Monday, 11/01/04 to ensure accurate count for food.
Pay via PayPal
or check. If paying via PayPal, make sure both the
registration form and the PayPal form are complete.
If writing a check please
register online and make check payable to: SLA Boston Chapter. Mail
check to: Nancy Stafford, PO Box 292, , Woods Hole, MA 02543.
Directions:
http://www.mbl.edu/inside/visit/directions/index.html
Once in town, Woods Hole Road becomes Water Street. Continue on
Water St. (MBL Club will be on your left) then turn right on MBL St. Turn left on North St. At the stop sign continue driving straight ahead. North St. becomes Bar Neck Road. Parking is on Bar Neck Road in a grassy field/lot on your right.
Parking:
http://www.mbl.edu/education/student_services/pdf/campus_map.pdf
PLEASE STOP AT MBL CLUB PRIOR TO PARKING TO PICK UP PARKING PASS.
Parking for this event is available in grassy field/lot next to #19 on the map. The MBL Club is #2 on map.
Lodging:
http://www.mbl.edu/housing/hotels.html
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