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Development of interactive application for herbarium of natural resources museum, UMK Jeli Campus


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Ismail, Nurul Fatihah Nadia (2020) Development of interactive application for herbarium of natural resources museum, UMK Jeli Campus. Final Year Project thesis, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. (Submitted)

Abstract

Herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens maintained for purposed study. The Natural Resources Museum at Faculty of Earth Science (FSB), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) is one of the faculty's facilities initiatives in collection, documenting as well as to exhibit the Malaysia's natural resources such as plants and insects. Since the existence of the FSB at UMK Jeli Campus in 2010, over 400 specimens of herbariums have been collected. This project developed the first of interactive application using web development for herbarium of Natural Resources Museum, UMK Jeli Campus with its Geographic Information System (GIS) application. Each sample of herbarium tagged with their geographic data. The geographic data is essential for making a distribution map of herbarium and to detect where they are located. This interactive application customizes the user experience on the website by putting the visitor in control. The website for herbarium has been successfully developed as designed by putting the pictures of herbarium species that were selected from the Natural Resources Museum, and the database of herbarium are successfully updated by inserting the images and general information of herbarium into the database. There are 13 families of herbarium have been updated which consists of 99 species. Thus, the database of herbarium and development of the website for herbarium are successfully updated and developed, and this project able to promote the collections of the herbariums of Natural Resources Museum to people as the main platform for education in the natural resources, biodiversity, and conservation issues.

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Item Type: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Collection Type: Final Year Project
Date: 2020
Call Number: SEN 2020 037
Supervisor: Dr. Shaparas binti Daliman
Programme: Natural Resources Science
Institution: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan
Faculty/Centre/Office: Faculty of Earth Sciences
URI: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/4175
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