Informatics at the Yale Peabody Museum

The Yale Peabody Museum’s Informatics Program, established during 2003, emphasizes adding value to museum collections by specimen digitization, automating georeferencing, and networked access to collection data. Informatics leverages rapidly changing technology for the benefit of the Museum and the broader scientific community. The Informatics Office and Computer Systems Office collaborate on a variety of projects toward the overall goal of digitizing the collections holdings.

Among the current Informatics initiatives are:

• BioGeoMancer, an automated web-based georeferencing service for natural history collections; and
  
• HERBIS (HERBarium Information System), which addresses herbarium specimen data capture methods and efficiencies, using high resolution digital imaging, web services for optical character recognition, natural handwriting recognizition and language processing;
  
• ORNIS (ORNithological Information System), an initiative based at the University of Kansas to make georeferenced collection data available from 35 participating institutions through a distributed network of databases.
  

Staff

William Piel
Director of Informatics Program
203.436.4957
Fax 203.432.9816
william.piel @ yale.edu

Youjun Guo
Programmer Analyst
203.432.9606
youjun.guo@yale.edu

Mailing Address

Informatics Program
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

Shipping Address

Informatics Program
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
170–210 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
 
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