A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections. One aim of the programme has been to improve the workflows and infrastructure needed to support high-throughput digitisation and create ...
E Louise Allan +4 more
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Identification of provisional Centres of Excellence for digitisation of European natural science collections [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 Digitisation of natural science collections is fundamental to the vision for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), and given the low proportion of collections digitally accessible, it is proposed that ‘Centres of Excellence’ be ...
Katherine Dixey +4 more
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Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biodiversity of Lumbrineridae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Central Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 The DNA taxonomy of six species of the annelid family Lumbrineridae collected from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Central Pacific, an area of potential mining interest for polymetallic nodules, is presented.
Lenka Neal +7 more
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Living plant collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 The collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus is hierarchically structured. The general collections policy defines the overall principles and guidelines. The sub-collections policies, such as the Living collections policy, comply
Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen +16 more
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History of Science and History of Philologies [PDF]
Isis, 2015 While both the sciences and the humanities, as currently defined, may be too heterogeneous to be encompassed within a unified historical framework, there is good reason to believe that the history of science and the history of philologies both have much to gain by joining forces.
Daston, Lorraine, MOST, Glenn
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Biodiversity data and new species descriptions of polychaetes from offshore waters of the Falkland Islands, an area undergoing hydrocarbon exploration [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Benthic environmental impact assessments and monitoring programs accompanying offshore hydrocarbon industry activities result in large collections of benthic organisms. Such collections offer great potential for systematics, biodiversity and biogeography
Lenka Neal +6 more
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Costbook of the digitisation infrastructure of DiSSCo [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 There has been little work to compare and understand the operating costs of digitisation using a standardised approach. This paper discusses a first attempt at gathering digitisation cost information from multiple institutions and analysing the data ...
Alex Hardisty +4 more
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Herbarium collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 The herbarium collections are sub-collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus that manages national natural history collections, as referred to in the Universities Act.
Henry Väre +10 more
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Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi. Fascicula XIX, IstorieThe present study aimes to capture the transformation of the Romanian Writers' Society from a politically uninvolved mutual aid institution into an institution for controlling the literary space.
Raluca Nicoleta Spiridon
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Open Information and Exceptions Policy of the Natural History Museum, London [PDF]
Research Ideas and OutcomesThere have been few, if any, open data and information management policies openly published from natural science collections. This paper contextualises the rationale for publishing the Open Information and Exceptions Policy of the Natural History Museum,
Matt Woodburn +8 more
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