Beside constructing our own database, we have been consulting other volunteer databases (Tsukii et al., 1995). Since 1997, we have been working on a project, "Construction of Biological Image Databases" (or shortly "Soken-Taxa project", URL; http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/) at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, where we are consulting or assisting construction of image databases on various organisms as follows: 1. Japanese Ant Color Image Database URL; http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/Ant.WWW/INDEXE.HTML 2. Marine Mammal Stranding Database URL; http://svrsh1.kahaku.go.jp/index.htm 3. Mammalian Crania Picture Archive URL; http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/mammal.html 4. Mouse Image Database URL; http://mouse.miyazaki-med.ac.jp:591/mouse1/ 5. Morning Glories Database URL; http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda/menu.html 6. Makino Type Specimen Database URL; http://wwwmakino.shizen.metro-u.ac.jp/database.htm
Recently, many other volunteer image databases on taxonomy of various organisms are arising here in Japan. |