Geology collection policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
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]
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]
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]
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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Herbarium collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
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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Costbook of the digitisation infrastructure of DiSSCo [PDF]
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]
There 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]
In 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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An annotated catalogue of selected historical type specimens, including genetic data, housed in the Natural History Museum Vienna [PDF]
Museum collections are an important source for resolving taxonomic issues and species delimitation. Type specimens as name-bearing specimens, traditionally used in morphology-based taxonomy, are, due to the progress in historical DNA methodology ...
Anja Palandačić +8 more
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Technical capacities of digitisation centres within ICEDIG participating institutions [PDF]
DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, is seeking to centralise certain infrastructure and activities relating to the digitisation of natural science collections.
Naomi Cocks +3 more
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