Information Linking

Internal -- The Show feature was created to provide easy, direct access via Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to reference data objects in Morphbank that may be used by other data repositories. Example: scientists may cite the Morphbank web site and display images and data in journal, conference, and workshop research papers. A person outside of Morphbank may then use that referenced URL as a direct link back to the data or image located in the Morphbank database.

External-- Morphbank has the ability to store external URLs with each object in the database (external linking). This can be done either at the time the object was created or added later during an edit session. Example: Users may add an image to the database and point to a museum web site where the original specimen is located. The museum URL is added as an external link to the image record.