Virtual Museum end of citizen science activities
Due
to circumstances beyond our control the VM will close its operations at the end
of 2024.
VM uploads will remain open until Sunday 1st of December. Expert panel
identifications will remain open until the 8th of December.
Long term archival
1. All VM records and photographs will be archived at UCT Libraries. UCT-Lib will use its ZivaHub and Ibali platforms for long term curation and public availability.
2. VM data will also be uploaded into the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) for distribution data availability to the wider research community.
3. VM records and photos will also be archived at Observation.org.
4. VM URLs to specific records, as used in numerous scientific publications, websites and blogs will be curated to provide direct links to the records archived at UCT-Lib and Observation.org.
5. All Citizen Scientists and observers are free to upload their data and images to any of the other online platforms such as iNaturalist if they choose to.
We would like to encourage VM observers to sign into either Observation.org or (as some observers have requested) iNaturalist to continue their valuable citizen science contributions.
Observation.org
Observation.org is a global
biodiversity platform for citizen science and monitoring. The use of this platform will give
observers who wish to sign into Observation.org the opportunity to transfer and
link their VM records to their profile in this portal.
Once
you have signed into this platform, please let us know so that your VM records
can be linked to your Observation.org profile during the record migration
process. Please email your Observation.org username (login email)
to Rene Navarro (rene.navarro@uct.ac.za)
or Jana Tippett (jana.tippett@thebdi.org)
to ensure that this process goes smoothly. We thank all of you that have already supplied this information.We are immensely grateful to all VM
observers and Expert Panel members for your invaluable contributions and support.
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The Biodiversity and Development Institute (BDI)
and
The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Department of Biological Sciences
- University of Cape Town
This work, except photographs, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright of images uploaded into the Virtual Museum remains with the photographers.