Specify Web Portal
This is a short list containing a handful of our Specify Web Portal users.
For collections that have are using Specify and wish to publish their data on the internet, the Specify Web Portal is a full-featured web interface for public access to specimen data and images.
It is an optional component of a Specify installation. Working from an exported copy of a Specify collection database, the Web Portal provides full-text indexed searches, structured, and spatial queries of specimen holdings. Express searches are fast with full-text indexing on every word in the database. Structured queries allow precise control of the search scope and multi-field queries can be constructed with AND or OR logic. Searches can be qualified to return only records with geo-coordinates or with attached images.
The Specify Web Portal displays specimen information in three views–Records, Images, and Map. On the “Records” tab specimen data are shown in a traditional grid view. The choice and number of data fields to display in the web interface is determined by each collection, and web users can sort and re-arrange data columns during a session. The search panel is customizable with an institutional logo or brand image, and the pages can be embedded into institutional content management systems or web platforms by a web programmer.
Web Portal Instances
The following collections are available:
KU Collections
- CReAC
- Ornithology
- Lichens
- Paleobotany
- Invertebrate Paleontology
- Herpetology
- Vascular Plant
- KUEntoPinned
- KU Fish Voucher Collection
- KU Fish Tissue Collection
- Mammalogy
- Vertebrate Paleontology
FLMNH Specify Web Portals
VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection
University of Texas Non-vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory
Alf Museum of Paleontology
Mollusks Collection National Shell Museum
Yugra State University Biological Collection
Emory University Herbarium
Bishop Museum
Florida Fish and Wildlife Invertebrate Collection
Cryoarks
Oregon State Ichthyology Collection
If you would like your collection’s Specify Web Portal added to this list, please leave a comment.