OZCAM: Online Zoological Collection of Australian Museums
Fish abundance and distributionSeabirds abundance and distributionMarine mammals abundance and distributionInvertebrate abundance and distribution
OZCAM stands for the Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums. The site provides a "proof of concept" that it is possible to provide access to datasets around Australia via a single portal. Currently, queries can be made on five groups of animals: mammals, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, dung beetles and molluscs. An extensive query screen allows the user to query by taxon name, by place, by time or by a combination of these. The user can also nominate which museums are to be queried. Data returned from sites around Australia can be displayed either as dots on a map or as a list. From either of these displays it is possible to mine the data further and view the raw dataset for any single specimen.
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Additional information
| Date (creation) | 2008-12-16 |
|---|---|
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Information accessed via this site reflects the quality and accuracy of the source datasets at the time of publication. No warranty is given for the accuracy, currency and error status of the information. Some information may change after publication due to date editing or cleaning and site updates. If users encounter errors in the data, it would be appreciated if these could be communicated to source database owners via the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of CHAFC, Dr Ken Walker. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |