1. SEMC is back on the
World Wide Web!
And the Specify workbench is cool too.
Jennifer Thomas
Assistant Collection Manager
KU Biodiversity Institute – Division of Entomology

2. The Specify 6 Web Portal
• We’ve actually been on the web since the
early 2000’s…
Entomology

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7.  “The Web Portal is intended for institutional web server computers;
installation requires the technical expertise of a server or network
administrator. Installation information is available on the Specify web
site Documentation page in the file:
Installing the Specify Web Portal (PDF).” ~ The Specify Project
 Use the Specify Schema mapper and Data Export tools to create the
web cache. We used the latest version of our GBIF DwC archive file
to create this first version of our web portal.
 Acknowledgements!
 Andy Bentley – Specify software project
 Drew Wallace – Specify software project
 Greg Smith – KU BI IT admin
 http://collections.biodiversity.ku.edu/entomology/

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Tips/Tricks/Hints/Words of Wisdom…
 Standardize, define, standardize again
 Remember, this is supposed to be efficient!
 Templates are you friend and you are supposed to *share*
them.
 Review the mapping on each spreadsheet before uploading.