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Release Your Local Species into the iOS Ecosystem
Simon Sherrin, Museum Victoria, Australia
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At the start of 2011, Australia's Museum Victoria (MV), published a Field Guide to Victorian Animals for iOS devices: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The MV field guide uses data written by MV's science curators, and images and sounds exported from MV's collection management system. Museum Victoria has released the source code for the app under an open source license. This paper shows how any institution can use that code and their own data, images and audio to customize and publish a field guide for their local area on iOS devices.
Keywords: field guide, natural history, mobile, iOS, open source
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Release your local species into the iOS ecosystem.