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A collaboration of 171 collections from 12 countries, with 52 additional collections from 20 countries, committed to participation in a cloud-based computing strategy to create a fast, cost-effective, and scalable data platform to deliver veterbrate collections data via the web. Serves as an umbrella for MaNIS, HerpNet, ORNIS, and FishNEt.
VertNet is a growing collaboration of natural history collections designed to fulfill the critical need for high quality biodiversity data.  It provides an integrated, globally accessible, and sustainable infrastructure via a cloud-based architecture to create a fast, cost-effective, and scalable data platform. This infrastructure represents a new model for data publishing that maintains the fundamental capacity for curation of data at the source, while leveraging the advantages of cloud-based computing technologies. VertNet is the umbrella organization for MaNIS, HerpNET, ORNIS, and FishNet.
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