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ISHNET 1 is a distributed information system that seeks to provide data towards answering two fundamental questions regarding marine biodiversity: how many vouchered records exist for each species of fishes, and what are their distributions in time and space? Recent advances in information technology make possible efficient access to one of the major resources for such knowledge, and the only resource in which data are backed up by actual specimens of the organisms: natural history museums. Scientific collections housed at world natural history museums constitute the most complete and authoritative record of global biodiversity (PCAST, 1998; Krishtalka and Humphrey, 1998, in press). The value of scientific collections lies in the fact that records are directly tied to actual voucher specimens. Changes in taxonomic names and discovery of new species can always be related to actual specimens which are available to all qualified investigators. Efficient access to such data can furnish investigators with baseline data regarding where and when collections have been made. Clearly, this information provides an important tool in planning future collecting efforts. Combining these data with environmental data and sophisticated artificial-intelligence algorithms (see Stockwell and Noble, 1991; Stockwell and Peters, 1993) makes it possible to predict species' distributions (Peterson et al., 1999), study the possible impact of the introduction of exotic species, and to model effects of environmental changes such as global climate change. The purpose of FISHNET is seamless integration of diverse data sets available to all scientists. FISHNET is a consortium of natural history museum fish collections that have agreed to share specimen data openly among all users. As a distributed information system, the data reside on computer servers at each participating institution who thus maintain ownership and stewardship of the data. Because data are served on FISHNET is a consortium of natural history museum fish collections that have agreed to share specimen data openly among all users. request to remote users, FISHNET is not an entity but a cooperative community. The concept of sharing fish specimen data is an old idea that has grown out of the earlier initiatives such as FISHGOPHER 2, MUSE 3 and NEODAT 4 projects. The fish community is almost unique among communities in the extent to which museum holdings have been captured in electronic form and a willingness to share data over the Internet. This particular initiative had its origins when Vieglais began exploring the application of the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 …

Harnessing Museum Resources for the Census of Marine Life: The FISHNET Project