ONLINE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS (OZCAM): A NATIONAL APPROACH TO MAKING ZOOLOGICAL DATA AVAILABLE ON THE WEB.

Museums increasingly seek to publish data on the internet. However, individual records from a natural sciences database are not meaningful. The combined results of a number of datasets can be made much more meaningful by using a graphical display. In this paper, a project undertaken by a group of Australian natural sciences collecting institutions is described. Issues about data quality and other aspects of data management are discussed.