Ichthyology at the Australian Museum : Collections, Databases and the Web(Part One Collection Building)
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The Australian Museum was established in 1827. Since 1864 there has been an almost unbroken sequence of ten fish Curators/Researchers. Today the Fish Section is staffed by one full-time Ichthyologist, two retired Research Fellows, a Collection Manager and several technical staff. The Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS) is part of a larger national collection made up of seven major collections and several smaller collections. Statistics are presented that compare the major collections. In December 2004 the AMS collection contained over 1.6 million specimens (168,800 lots) comprising 635,000 adult fishes (136,000 lots) and approximately 1,000,000 larvae (32,800 lots). The type collection contained 2,271 type species (11,302 specimens in 4,726 lots). In the mid 1970s digitisation of collection data began. In 1998 a Compaq Proliant server was purchased to store the databases and to serve data to the Web. Data have remained on this server until the present time, but will shortly be moved to a SUN server. The Australian Museum used KE Titan database software from 1987 until 1995 when data were moved to KE Texpress. The fish databases are currently in the process of being upgraded to KE EMu software. The Australian Museum Fish Website first went online in 1995 and now contains approximately 3000 pages (8000 files). It gives users access to over 850 species fact sheets primarily on Australian fishes and other content areas including online access to fish collection data and maps. In the twelve months between November 2004 and October 2005, the site received nearly 7 million page views (2.5 million visits). The benefits and drawbacks of developing and maintaining a website are briefly discussed. Three recent projects that have involved the AMS Fish Section are discussed, along with the future plans for collection development, databases and the website.
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