Geology collection policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2021 The Geology Collection is part of the national collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus. General principles and guidelines for the collections are defined in the General Collection Policy of Luomus.
Arto Luttinen +8 more
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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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The natural history of ‘Oumuamua [PDF]
Nature Astronomy, 2019 The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and the general public. The faintness of 'Oumuamua, together with the limited time window within which observations were possible, constrained the information available on its ...
Bannister, Michele T. +14 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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A natural history of skills [PDF]
Progress in Neurobiology, 2018 The dorsal pallium (a.k.a. cortex in mammals) makes a loop circuit with the basal ganglia and the thalamus known to control and adapt behavior but the who's who of the functional roles of these structures is still debated. Influenced by the Triune brain theory that was proposed in the early sixties, many current theories propose a hierarchical ...
Boraud, Thomas +2 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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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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Museomics, the Extended Specimen and Collectomics – how to frame and name the diversity of information linked to specimens in natural history collections [PDF]
Natural History Collections and MuseomicsIn light of recent technological advances – in fields such as computer science, imaging technologies, and molecular analysis methods – the possibilities for studying biological museum specimens and linking information across disciplines have expanded ...
Martin Kapun +7 more
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