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'''Box 1. MorphBank: Biological image databasing @ [[http://www.morphbank.net/| MorphBank]]''' is an open web repository  of images serving the biological research community. It is currently being used to document specimens in natural history collections, to voucher DNA sequence data, and to share research results in disciplines such as taxonomy, morphometrics, comparative anatomy, and phylogenetics. MorphBank can serve as a virtual reference collection of named organisms or a resource for comparative morphological study; new use cases are continuously added. Each image in the database is associated with fully searchable text information, and images can be downloaded in several different formats. MorphBank is open to any biologist interested in storing and sharing digital images of organisms. A major advantage of MorphBank is that images and data associated with them are maintained in a system based on open standards and free software, facilitating the development of tools for image uploading, retrieval, annotation, and related tasks. The MorphBank team is currently working on a range of such tools. The MorphBank team is also working together with other developers on connecting their software to the MorphBanksystem. Any image submitted to MorphBank is meant to eventually become available free for non-commercial use. There is a suggested maximum time-limit of five years during which you can chose to either keep the image to yourself or share it with other users via groups such as the HymAToL group. Currently, we are depositing all our images for use by the Heraty Laboratories group.<br/>As of writing there are 57,687 images in MorphBank, of which 10,708 are of Hymenoptera.
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'''Box 1. MorphBank: Biological image databasing @ [[http://www.morphbank.net/| MorphBank]]''' is an open web repository  of images serving the biological research community. It is currently being used to document specimens in natural history collections, to voucher DNA sequence data, and to share research results in disciplines such as taxonomy, morphometrics, comparative anatomy, and phylogenetics. MorphBank can serve as a virtual reference collection of named organisms or a resource for comparative morphological study; new use cases are continuously added. Each image in the database is associated with fully searchable text information, and images can be downloaded in several different formats. MorphBank is open to any biologist interested in storing and sharing digital images of organisms. A major advantage of MorphBank is that images and data associated with them are maintained in a system based on open standards and free software, facilitating the development of tools for image uploading, retrieval, annotation, and related tasks. The MorphBank team is currently working on a range of such tools. The MorphBank team is also working together with other developers on connecting their software to the MorphBanksystem. Any image submitted to MorphBank is meant to eventually become available free for non-commercial use. There is a suggested maximum time-limit of five years during which you can chose to either keep the image to yourself or share it with other users via groups such as the HymAToL group.<br/> As of writing there are 57,687 images in MorphBank, of which 10,708 are of Hymenoptera.
 
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Revision as of 12:59, 28 December 2006

This section is treated before the characters since you need to submit images here (or to MorphBank) before they are available to illustrate characters and states within MX. For now, all you need to know is about the default images subsection you see when clicking on the Images tab.

The default view shows a list of images in thumbnail format, sorted by ID# (Fig. 9). The first one is smaller because it is linked from MorphBank (see Box 1) while the other three are stored within MX. Simply click on a thumbnail to view details or click the edit description, edit or delete links depending upon what you want to do. I am here assuming that uploading new images will mostly be with the primary purpose of illustrating a character or a character state. If you want to add in arrows like in the example images in figure 9 you have to do so before uploading the image. Also, if you keep the image size down and save it to a compressed format like jpeg, pages with the illustrated characters will load faster than if you use full size SEM’s like TIFF-files. You can see an example of a filled out page (Fig. 10) after you have clicked the New image link in figure 9. There OTU here but you need for the taxon name to already exist. In case you want to use an image that does not belong to any particular (or single) OTU there is nothing inherently stopping you from creating a dummy OTU for these.


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Fig. 9. Images.
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Fig. 10. New mx image.


Box 1. MorphBank: Biological image databasing @ [MorphBank] is an open web repository of images serving the biological research community. It is currently being used to document specimens in natural history collections, to voucher DNA sequence data, and to share research results in disciplines such as taxonomy, morphometrics, comparative anatomy, and phylogenetics. MorphBank can serve as a virtual reference collection of named organisms or a resource for comparative morphological study; new use cases are continuously added. Each image in the database is associated with fully searchable text information, and images can be downloaded in several different formats. MorphBank is open to any biologist interested in storing and sharing digital images of organisms. A major advantage of MorphBank is that images and data associated with them are maintained in a system based on open standards and free software, facilitating the development of tools for image uploading, retrieval, annotation, and related tasks. The MorphBank team is currently working on a range of such tools. The MorphBank team is also working together with other developers on connecting their software to the MorphBanksystem. Any image submitted to MorphBank is meant to eventually become available free for non-commercial use. There is a suggested maximum time-limit of five years during which you can chose to either keep the image to yourself or share it with other users via groups such as the HymAToL group.
As of writing there are 57,687 images in MorphBank, of which 10,708 are of Hymenoptera.
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Box 1. figure
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