VertNet: The Future
HerpNET, ORNIS, MaNIS and FishNet2 are taxon-based web portals that now serve georeferenced data on vertebrates from over 72 global institutions. Together these comprise VertNET, a NSF-funded collaborative project with the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Colorado, Tulane University and the University of Kansas, working to maintain and expand these distributed database projects. Future plans include biodiversity informatics workshops, enhancement of the portal design, better searching capabilities, and a dynamic cloud-based platform to expand performance, sustainability, annotation and analytic features. Read more about VertNet on the VertNet blog.