MaNIS Portals
The Mammal Networked Information System
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The MaNIS network provides access to mammal specimen records from a variety of museum collection databases via several equivalent portals (see the MaNIS Network Architecture diagram, below). A portal presents web pages from which a user can send requests for data and visualize the results. Requests for data pass through provider software installed on computers at the participating institutions. Individual institutions determine which data are made accessible to the public and format their data to agree with the community-determined standard (in this case the Darwin Core). Depending on their individual requirements, institutions may serve data to the public directly from their working collection databases, or they may serve data via a separate public database to which data are periodically migrated. These public databases may be within the same institutions (local snapshot), or they may be hosted at a collaborating institution (hosted snapshot). By participating in MaNIS, institutions also provide data via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).


MaNIS Portal at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ)
MaNIS Portal at the University of Washington Burke Museum (UWBM)
MaNIS Portal at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH)

Network Architecture
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John Wieczorek, 13 June 2003
Rev. 4 Mar 2007, JRW
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