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The Smithsonian Ocean Portal is an educational website created and maintained by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The website features regularly updated, original content from the museum’s research, collections, and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content provided by a number of collaborating organizations. According to the site’s statement of purpose, the Ocean Portal was created to “help increase public knowledge about the ocean and marine science, raise public awareness of the ocean’s importance to all life, and inspire millions of online visitors to become caring ocean stewards.”〔Smithsonian Ocean Portal, Statement of Purpose, February 4, 2009〕 Supported by private donations, the Ocean Portal is designed to appeal to a broad audience, but the primary audiences are young adults, ocean enthusiasts, educators, and children ages 9–13. The Ocean Portal represents the third pillar of the National Museum of Natural History’s Ocean Initiative, created to further the museum’s mission to increase ocean awareness and stewardship. The other pillars of the initiative include the Sant Ocean Hall, the museum’s largest exhibition to date, and the Sant Chair for Marine Science, currently filled by marine biologist Dr. Nancy Knowlton. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) cares for an estimated 126 million specimens, approximately 94% of all Smithsonian collections. About one-third of NMNH collections and staff focus on the marine realm. NMNH houses the world's largest marine collection, originating from marine research efforts that date back 160 years. ==History== In a first for any Smithsonian Institution website, the Smithsonian Ocean Portal is built on a LAMP architecture using the free, open-source software called Drupal. The New York-based web developer Funny Garbage designed and built the Smithsonian Ocean Portal. The Beta version of the website went live in December 2009. Three months later, in March 2010, the National Museum of Natural History launched ''What Does It Mean to Be Human?'', its second Drupal website and the online companion to the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. For several months in early 2010 the Ocean Portal site was tested among specific audiences while development continued. The Beta site launched to the broader public on June 2, 2010 as part of the celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smithsonian Ocean Portal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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