National Taiwan University Zoology Museum Digital

The Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology joins the Digital Archives Project to create the digital museum of zoology. The collections include specimen, life history, distribution, body measurements, ecological photos, calls, field videos and original published papers of Taiwan 's wildlife species such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, earthworms, mollusks, and coral reefs.

 

Digital Museum of Zoology at National Taiwan University
The purpose of this project is to create multimedia databases for Taiwan's wildlife. Specimen have been collected since the Japanese Occupation Period, and digital records are collected and maintained by researchers in the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University.

 

The archived data include specimen, taxonomy, life history, distribution, body measurements, ecological photos, sounds, videos and original description of published papers. Metadata were created to document these diverse and heterogeneous information. The databases are available online in multimedia format. Real-time distribution maps can be queried. Currently, over 680,000 records have been archived.

http://archive.zo.ntu.edu.tw/


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