The 100 Counties Project of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences allows the public to explore how the Museum engages all 100 counties across North Carolina. Statistics are visualized through an interactive map and animated charts with summaries of each category. The data is updated using annually and served through a custom RESTful API.

The Candid Critters Project Management system (CAPS) is a custom web application to support the NC Candid Critters project workflow. CAPS is built using the Laravel MVC Framework with a MYSQL database backend. The web application features a wide array of features that include camera management, reservation and training tracking, site mapping, and custom reports generated on the fly.

The architecture of the application is divided into modules that provide support for specific sections of the workflow. This way the application can target and scale to particular needs. These modules with a short description are as follows:

1. Volunteers. This module handles the submissions, status, and activities of all project volunteers. The training programs all volunteers must undergo can also be tracked using this module.
2. Sites. The geographic distribution and associated metadata of sites are managed through a series of interfaces. Sites belong to one or more types, including proposed camera locations, active data collection sites, and past sites.
3. Libraries. Each participating library is given an optional account in the CAPS. This allows them to directly manage their camera inventory, reservation activity, and contact information. If libraries opt-out, then the module seamlessly moves to administrative control.
4. Form Submissions. The start of the project workflow beings with a series of custom forms, each for a specific type of volunteer. All form submissions and subsequent routing through the project are managed using this module.
5. Web Maps. Closely related to the sites module, the web map module is a centralized management component for all embedded maps and associated resources (e.g. proposed camera sites). The web maps in CAPS contain an array of features including hundreds of camera site locations, reverse geocoding, custom map layers, and a feature that allows users to find the nearest library and proposed camera site to their given location.

A project information website for NC Candid Critters, a citizen science camera trap survey of North Carolina. Citizen scientists get to explore the outdoors and learn about the critters living in their community while helping us gain information that can be used for conservation and management purposes. The project is based at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in collaboration with NC State University, NC Wildlife Resources Commission, the State Library of NC, NC Cardinal, the Public Libraries of North Carolina, and the Smithsonian.

The NCSM Online Collections web application, project name Aves, is the flagship search and data-sharing platform for the biological, geological, and paleontological collections at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The application is built using the Laravel and Vue.js frameworks. Bootstrap takes care of the responsive behavior, vivus.js for SVG animations, and jQuery Datatables for the display and interactivity of search results. Several collections include a web map for georeferenced specimens using Leaflet and custom GeoJSON API endpoints provided by the NCSM Data Publishing Platform.

The Online Collections portal belongs to the internal collections interconnected network, a set of web applications that communicate with one another through custom APIs. Here, media in the form of 3-D models, images, and scans of primary sources (e.g., ledgers, labels, and collection cards) associated with specimens are provided by the Collections Asset Manager. Spatial datasets, controlled vocabularies, collections metrics are provided dynamically by the NCSM Data Publishing platform.

Replaced in 2018, the goal of the NCSM Online Collections website was to provide valid, useful, rigorously processed data products to end users via a simple and efficient searching protocol. We achieved this using web-based search forms for each collection that returned six data products to the end user. The application was responsive to both large and small devices and compliant with section 508 accessibility guidelines. This web application was retired in early 2019. and replaced with the next generation NCSM Online Collections web application.

Designed, built, and deployed from start to finish in only 6 months (a fear that stands apart from all others), the NCMNS website is a multi-purpose and multi-faceted organization site that serves the largest institution of its kind in the southeastern United States. Eight years after it launched in 2015, the website contains more than 1,920 pages with more than 2,500 page views every day and continues to meet the day-to-day needs of staff and the organization.

NCSM Species Mapper is an interactive data visualization and web mapping application that allows end users to map the georeferenced specimens in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ collections. An array of features and data layers are included to meet the needs of both researchers and educators.