. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. COLLECTIONS Database Update The multi-vear migration of all legacy collections databases to the master museum-wide database, MCZbase, has been completed. Data entry from the original specimen ledgers and catalogues is nearly completed as well, and the scanning of these resources is almost finished. Once linked to MCZbase, researchers will be able to call up a specimen record arid \iew the image of die original ledger page where it was recorded. The MCZ Lepidoptera Rapid Data Capture Project will produce the first Entomology co
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. COLLECTIONS Database Update The multi-vear migration of all legacy collections databases to the master museum-wide database, MCZbase, has been completed. Data entry from the original specimen ledgers and catalogues is nearly completed as well, and the scanning of these resources is almost finished. Once linked to MCZbase, researchers will be able to call up a specimen record arid \iew the image of die original ledger page where it was recorded. The MCZ Lepidoptera Rapid Data Capture Project will produce the first Entomology collection to be represented in MCZbase. During the past twelve months, thirty-three undergraduate smdents and volunteer interns have contributed to this effort, including photographing butterflies and transcribing data in the collection room. According to project manager Rod Eastwood, butterfly data capture has now reached the halfway mark, with approximately 100,000 butterfly specimens and labels imaged. A quarter of these have pin label data transcribed into the Lepidoptera database in preparation for uploading to MCZbase. "Digitizing the butterfly collection and making the images available online not onlv makes the collection immediately accessible. to researchers around the world, but also prorides a valuable resource for research into butterfly wing shape and color patterning," said Naomi Pierce, Curator of Lepidoptera and Hessel Professor of Biology. The protocols developed for the butterfly collection will be adapted to image and database other taxa in the insect collections, starting with the large and important MCZ ant collection. In other developments, MCZbase is currently feeding all of its specimen photos into the Encyclopedia of Life, and the MCZ has connibuted specimen data to 4,278 EOL species pages to date. MCZbase is now also calling out to Berkeley Mapper to gather data to create point distribution maps with GoogleMaps and other applications. The MCZ
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