External Linking - Internal Linking

Morphbank provides an option to link deposited images to any external link (link to a site outside Morphbank) and link any site back to Morphbank (internal link).

• Links may include other databases, NCBI accession numbers, location maps, publications, other Morphbank records, etc.
• Links may be included at the time of image deposition in the Excel spreadsheet or on the Morphbank Web site or after the image data is deposited in Morphbank.
• For each link, a label must be provided describing the link. The label determines how the link will appear on the Morphbank Single Show page.
• Links may be associated with any Morphbank table. So, they can appear in the Specimen record, Image record, Locality record, View record, etc.
• Published Morphbank images may be linked to any Web site or database for educational and non-profit purposes (see Morphbank copyright information http://www.morphbank.net/About/Copyright/).

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External Links - Adding to any Morphbank record

Morphbank Contributors using mass upload methods may add these external links during upload. Information needed includes the:

• URL itself in http:// format
• Label the Morphbank User clicks on to go the URL
• choice of type of URL (from drop-down list, examples include: GenBank, Institution, etc ...)

When logged-in and browsing, a Morphbank user can add external links to objects they are uploading or to objects they have already contributed or submitted.

1. To supply external links for images, specimens, views, locations and publications already deposited in Morphbank, browse for the desired object and click on the edit icon.
   • For images and other objects already deposited in Morphbank the label and link information will need to be associated with the actual Morphbank record id. This id is unique to each record and is located at the top of each Morphbank record.
   
   
2. After clicking on the edit icon, go to the bottom of the Edit screen and click on the blue highlighted text "Add External Links." This will bring up the external links submit/edit form as seen below. A Contributor/Submitter will supply external links in this same place during the submitting process, if submitting through the web interface.



3. Type: Select from the drop-down list the appropriate link type. Selections might include, Institution, GenBank, Publication, Google Maps or Other
4. Label: Type in a short, descriptive label. This label is the name of the link that will appear on the Morphbank record page. Appropriate labels would include the name of the institution that the link is going back to or the name of the gene region that is linking to an accession number. Examples: Google Map, CO1, AMNH. Make sure the label is brief.
5. URL: Enter or cut and paste the URL where the link is located.
6. Description: Free text entry about the link. Example: comment about the institution that is being linked to.
7. Click Submit.
8. To add more than one external link, click on the plus sign. The minus sign will remove any link not needed.

      Image Record Show - sample External Links

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Internal Links - Link Back to Morphbank From an Outside Source

• The Morphbank Id for each record is unique. These records with unique ids include: collections, specimens, images, views, locations, annotations, publications, character collections and OTUs. Thus unique links can be formed in this manner to any of these Morphbank records.
• All links to Morphbank records are formed the same way with
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id= as the base of the URL + the Morphbank ID for that object (in this case 64122)
• Put these links in web sites, journal articles, online documents, emails, tweets, etc.
• An entire link to one specific specimen record may look like this: http://www.morphbank.net/Show/?id=64122.

Internal Link Options

Since each object in Morphbank has a unique identifier in Morphbank, it is possible to build a URL to point to that object (i.e. return that object to the user). Objects include: Contributor, Submitter, Group, Image, Specimen, View, Locality, Publication, Collection and Annotation.The following table shows how a URL is built to point to various objects in Morphbank.

Internal Link Samples

Sample Internal Link

If the Contributor wishes to show the Image and Metadata for the Image, this is the Morphbank "Show" page for the Image Record.
The URL looks like: http://www.morphbank.net/?id=65847
and when clicked, opens the following page in Morphbank.

Linking back to the Morphbank record provides a valuable increase in available information associated with the image to include data about the locality, collector, specimen, contributor, etc. This increases the value of the image to a webpage. For those interested in using images deposited on Morphbank for online keys and Web sites, please contact Morphbank admin mbadmin at scs dot fsu dot edu for options and suggestions.

Note: Morphbank is an Entrez LinkOut ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/) provider for the Nucleotide ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide) and Taxonomy ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Taxonomy) databases. Morphbank will provide NCBI with the accession numbers and ids that are sent for the purpose of linking GenBank back to images of voucher specimens on Morphbank. Morphbank also provides links for NCBI taxonomy using images deposited in Morphbank. These links are updated periodically. If only GenBank accession numbers and Morphbank ids are involved, then the full URL does not need to be provided, but only the accession number. Data for external links may also be accepted in tab-delimited or comma-delimited text files.

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Image Ids - A Special Case

Using Image Ids to Embed an Image in an external Web site

• Images in Morphbank may also be linked to other Web sites, online keys, species pages, etc. using only the path that links to the .jpeg of that image (i.e. http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=jpeg). This path can easily be found by clicking on the .jpg icon from a search results page, in the navigation bar of that page.
• All links to embedded images are formed the same way with
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id= as the base of the URL + the Morphbank ID for that object (in this case 133776) + &imgType=jpeg (specification of image type)
• Image sizing: The same image is found on Morphbank in multiple sizes that may be useful for linking. These sizes include a thumbnail (95X70), medium jpg (400X300), large jpeg, large tiff and a user-defined size. These sizes may be found by changing the path name. If:
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=jpeg is the full size jpeg image then
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=tiff is the tiff,
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=jpg is the medium sized image and
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=thumb is the thumbnail image.
  http://www.morphbank.net/?id=133776&imgType=jpg&imgSize=500 is the jpg image where a user desires an image with a defined width, in this case, 500 pixels. The user may insert the number of pixels to constrain the image to the size that works best for their purpose.

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Getting Morphbank Ids to Build URLs

Via Services, users retrieve Morphbank Ids for various objects. Using these ids, Contributors create urls and may also build other websites that utilize web services, pulling images via their ids. See Morphbank Web Services in this online user manual for more details.

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