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SEMC is back on the World Wide Web!

And the Specify workbench is cool too.

Jennifer Thomas Assistant Collection Manager

KU Biodiversity Institute – Division of Entomology

The Specify 6 Web Portal• We’ve actually been on the web since the

early 2000’s… Entomology

The Specify 6 Web Portal

The Specify 6 Web Portal

The Specify 6 Web Portal

The Specify 6 Web Portal

“The Web Portal is intended for institutional web server computers; installation requires the technical expertise of a server or network administrator. Installation information is available on the Specify web site Documentation page in the file: Installing the Specify Web Portal (PDF).” ~ The Specify Project

Use the Specify Schema mapper and Data Export tools to create the web cache. We used the latest version of our GBIF DwC archive file to create this first version of our web portal.

Acknowledgements! Andy Bentley – Specify software project Drew Wallace – Specify software project Greg Smith – KU BI IT admin

http://collections.biodiversity.ku.edu/entomology/

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

The Specify 6 Workbench

Tips/Tricks/Hints/Words of Wisdom…

Standardize, define, standardize again

Remember, this is supposed to be efficient!

Templates are you friend and you are supposed to *share* them.

Review the mapping on each spreadsheet before uploading.