New Digital Encyclopedia of 3-D Vertebrate Specimens Offers Open Source Data and Images
August 24, 2017
August 24, 2017
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 24 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release:
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public.
oVert, short for openVertebrate, complements other NSF-sponsored museum digitization ef . . .
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public.
oVert, short for openVertebrate, complements other NSF-sponsored museum digitization ef . . .