Support for Computerization and Maintenance of Botanical Systematic Collections at the California Academy of Sciences

弗兰克·阿尔梅达博士是植物学的高级馆长 系在加州科学院，他有 为该部门设计了一个重要的计算机化计划。 阿尔梅达博士建议建立一个计算机连接到国家 计算机网络互联网为植物系和整个 书院在此过程中，植物学系将与其他几个系一起 大型加州植物标本馆在一个雄心勃勃的数据库计划 发展大学植物标本馆 加州伯克利分校正在实施标本管理 加州植物标本馆系统（SMASCH），一台联网计算机 加州植物标本数据库。计算机化程序 由阿尔梅达博士设计的这座核电站 收藏成为SMASCH数据库的一部分，因为它的发展。 拟议的植物数据库倡议的影响不仅限于 加州科学院的藏品。自然 历史博物馆和植物标本馆正在建立世界范围的网络， 信息共享，这些计算机化的信息资源 将彻底改变生物多样性的研究。研究 地球科学、地理学、经济学以及 生物学将从这些数据库中获取信息， 目前不可用。未来几代科学家将依赖于 在研究全球气候时， 变化，进化史和其他综合研究 问题.

Dr. Frank Almeda is the Senior Curator of the Botany Department in the California Academy of Sciences, and he has designed a significant computerization program for the department. Dr. Almeda proposes to establish a computer linkage to the national computer network Internet for the Botany Department and the entire Academy. In so doing, the Botany Department will join several other large California herbaria in an ambitious program of database development. The University Herbarium at the University of California at Berkeley is implementing the Specimen Management System for California Herbaria (SMASCH), a networked computer database of California plant specimens. The computerization program designed by Dr. Almeda will allow the Academy's important plant collections to become a part of the SMASCH database as it develops. The proposed plant database initiative has implications beyond the collections at the California Academy of Sciences. Natural history museums and herbaria are establishing world-wide networks of information sharing, and these computerized information resources will revolutionize research on biological diversity. Research scientists in earth sciences, geography, economics, as well as biology will draw on these databases for information that is presently unavailable. Future generations of scientists will depend on data resources such as these as they investigate global climate change, evolutionary history, and other integrative research questions.