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Aubrey Moore: New page: ==Essig Museum of Entomology== The Essig Museum of Entomology has by far the largest specimen collection on campus (estimated at 12 million records and over 30,000 species) but until 2003 ...

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New page: ==Essig Museum of Entomology== The Essig Museum of Entomology has by far the largest specimen collection on campus (estimated at 12 million records and over 30,000 species) but until 2003 ...

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==Essig Museum of Entomology==
The Essig Museum of Entomology has by far the largest specimen collection on campus (estimated at 12
million records and over 30,000 species) but until 2003 had no digital catalog system, probably due to the
sheer mass of the collection. Few entomology museums have digitized their holdings. Taking advantage of
the need for a new design from scratch, Essig decided to plan a collection management system that is
completely online, that would integrate all aspects of data management within the museum including
specimen records, photos, accessions and loans, data entry and correction, and publications. Essig had
begun using the DLP Personal Library system in 2002 to scan California Insect Survey journals, which
would provide a start for assembling species lists within the museum. In 2003 Essig began working with
the Digital Library Project to create a web-based specimen database with data entry capabilities modeled
on previous DLP projects such as UCMP online, AmphibiaWeb, and CalPhotos. In April 2003 the first
specimen records came online, and a few months later, accessions and collector tables were added. Early
in 2004 a set of 12,000 aphid records, along with a photo of each specimen, was added, and by the end of
the year the number of digitized records had reached around 20,000. A web-based data entry form which
directly updated the specimen database was added in late 2004. A few months later, a database of 42,000
unique species names came online which will be integrated into the data entry system. Records in all the
databases can be corrected by any Essig staff with the proper permissions. As of this writing (May 2005), a
number of museum scientists and faculty are using the data entry form to add new specimens not only for
Essig but also for other entomology museums that do not have digital cataloging in place. The next
challenge for Essig is to obtain funding to digitize its existing specimens – a daunting task.

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 challenge for Essig is to obtain funding to digitize its existing specimens – a daunting task.
-*[http://bscit.berkeley.edu/eme/ ]
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 *[http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/DC/eme.html Darwin Core for Essig Data]

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+==Extracted from [http://bnhm.berkeley.edu/about/history.pdf A historical survey of technology in the UCB natural history museums]==
 The Essig Museum of Entomology has by far the largest specimen collection on campus (estimated at 12
 million records and over 30,000 species) but until 2003 had no digital catalog system, probably due to the
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 number of museum scientists and faculty are using the data entry form to add new specimens not only for
 Essig but also for other entomology museums that do not have digital cataloging in place. The next
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+challenge for Essig is to obtain funding to digitize its existing specimens – a daunting task.