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Computers are essential to the collection for (i) documentation, (ii) maintenance, (iii) database search engines, and (iv) output products, either as photos, text files, or web pages. Microsoft windows-based PC machines are used to service the majority of the first three functions. MacIntosh machines running unix-based OS X are used for most output functions because of their huge superiority in handling and integration of multimedia applications. Many extensively used applications, such as Adobe Photoshop/Acrobat/InDesign, Macromedia Dreamweaver, iView Mediapro, and Microsoft Office are cross-platform compatible.
Dell server with Windows Server 2003 software. The INVAM website is operated and maintained on this computer. A separate hard drive serves as a central repository and archive of all files generated by the lab and the collection. Click on photos to see larger images. |
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| A PowerMac G4 computer for mac-centric users is present in the lab, where it is used mostly by mac-centric users for routine and inovative Apple-designed multimedia applications (iDVD, iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb). It also functions as a workstation for DNA alignments and phylogenetic analyses. |
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Extensive
microscopic work is undertaken daily, either to observe and quantify
spores of active or stored cultures, to make vouchers, or to document
fungal properties photographically. All of this is done at a dedicated
table in the lab. Click here for further
details on how we manipulate and catalog images. |
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| Staff personnel (Wheeler, full-time research assistant/Amarasinghe, post-doc and associate curator) share an office, but each has a PC workstation. Both are linked with the server on a local area network to access files or carry out database functions. |
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| Morton uses a PowerMac G5 as his main workstation and a PC laptop for portability. Files are transferred to and from home (where a PowerMac G4 workstation is used) via a 5th generation iPod (his favorite device for both work and play). For conversion of slide transparencies to digital photos, he uses a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 and for printing photo quality color prints, he uses a Kodak 8500 dye-sublimation printer. Both of these devices are connected to his home computer, since most of his image manipulation activities are done there. | |
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