Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Animal Diversity Web

Project Website

http://www.animaldiversity.org

Project Description

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

Animal Diversity Web has

• Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy.
• Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part.

Contact

Phil Myers
Principal Investigator
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-Jan-1995

Key Inputs

NSF, Homeland Foundation, IERI
too many data inputs to list now

Key Infrastructure

Web site

Key Technologies

HTML, XML, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, OWL

Key Processes

Editorial review of student-submitted information
Dump of data to TaxonTree at University of Maryland (currently offline)

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Kingdom - Animalia

Comments

I am submitting this on behalf of ADW. They may want to replace this with their own version.

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