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OZCAM: Online Zoological Collection of Australian Museums

Australian Ocean Data Network
Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)
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Material from the OZCAM website can be saved or printed for research and for personal use only. Material includes information, text, images, sounds and audio-visual material in this website and its sub-sites. Apart from the purposes noted the material may not otherwise be copied, re-sold, re-distributed or framed, or otherwise used whether for compensation of any kind or not, without prior written permission from CHAFC. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968-1973 and Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 NO. 110, 2000, no part of the OZCAM web site may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from CHAFC.

Information accessed via this site reflects the quality and accuracy of the source datasets at the time of publication. No warranty is given for the accuracy, currency and error status of the information. Some information may change after publication due to date editing or cleaning and site updates. If users encounter errors in the data, it would be appreciated if these could be communicated to source database owners via the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of CHAFC, Dr Ken Walker.

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OZCAM stands for the Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums. The site provides a "proof of concept" that it is possible to provide access to datasets around Australia via a single portal. Currently, queries can be made on five groups of animals: mammals, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, dung beetles and molluscs. An extensive query screen allows the user to query by taxon name, by place, by time or by a combination of these. The user can also nominate which museums are to be queried. Data returned from sites around Australia can be displayed either as dots on a map or as a list. From either of these displays it is possible to mine the data further and view the raw dataset for any single specimen.

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Australian Biological Resources Study
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Australian Museum
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CSIRO Entomology, Canberra
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CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart
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CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra
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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Government
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Museum Victoria
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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
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Queensland Museum
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South Australian Museum
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
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Western Australian Museum
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The National Oceans Office
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Australian Museums & Galleries Online
Purpose
The aim of OZCAM is to provide an online distributed query network to faunal collections in Australian museums. Museums hold significant repositories of data about the biodiversity of Australian fauna. However, the data each institution holds is limited by collecting practices - that is, not all museums collect in the same place at the same time. In order to achieve a picture of the fauna of the whole of Australia, as represented in museum collections, the data from all the museums must be linked. This is what OZCAM does.

Created: 16 12 2008

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Amphibians | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | ARTHROPODS | AUSTRALIA INCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | Birds | Biosphere | Zoology | Insects | Crustaceans | EARTH SCIENCE | Fish | Mammals | Mollusks | Reptiles | biota | invertebrates, entomology, ichthyology, herpetology, mammalogy, ornithology, porifera |

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(OZCAM: Search Australia's Fauna)

uri : http://www.ozcam.gov.au/cgi-bin/emu-dataportal.cgi

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