IMA Fungus 8(2): e33715, doi: 10.1007/BF03449464
The Mycology Collections Portal (MyCoPortal)
expand article infoAndrew N. Miller‡, Scott T. Bates§
‡ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States of America§ Purdue University Northwest, Department of Biological Sciences, Westville
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Citation: Miller AN, Bates ST (2017) The Mycology Collections Portal (MyCoPortal). IMA Fungus 8(2): e33715. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03449464
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Abstract
The Mycology Collections Portal (MyCoPortal) was established in 2011 to offer a simple, economic solution for institutions worldwide to maintain and serve their fungal collection data online. Although the MyCoPortal functions primarily as a web portal for collections to upload their specimen metadata and images, it also provides data packaging (e.g. checklists), visualization (mapping and timelines), educational material (identification keys, quizzes) and easy access to DwC formatted data sets as downloadable csv files. The MyCoPortal currently serves over 3.6M records from 84 institutions worldwide.
Keywords
data portal, database, fungaria, fungi, genetic data, georeferencing, natural history collections, specimens