Quantifying the use of natural history collections. [PDF]
Biodivers Data JMeasuring the use of natural history collections is essential to understand their past and present impact on science, to underpin decisions about their management and to assist with deploying them optimally to address societal challenges. Using the vast natural history collections of Naturalis Biodiversity Center as an example, this paper assesses the ...
Caspers M +6 more
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The next generation of natural history collections. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2018 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology.
Schindel DE, Cook JA.
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A strategy to digitise natural history collections with limited resources. [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2020 The present work is a contribution towards accelerating the digitisation process of natural history collections, usually a slow process. A two-stage process was developed at the herbarium of the University of Coimbra: (i) a new workflow was established to automatically create records in the herbarium master database with minimum information, while ...
Santos J, Rupino da Cunha P, Sales F.
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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. To facilitate these studies and improve access to collections, many organisations are embarking on major programmes of digitization.
Hudson LN +7 more
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Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes. [PDF]
Mol Ecol, 2016 AbstractNatural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in biogeography, systematics and conservation. However, they also hold the potential for studying evolution directly.
Holmes MW +10 more
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The development of a digitising service centre for natural history collections. [PDF]
Zookeys, 2012 Digitarium is a joint initiative of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the University of Eastern Finland. It was established in 2010 as a dedicated shop for the large-scale digitisation of natural history collections. Digitarium offers service packages based on the digitisation process, including tagging, imaging, data entry, georeferencing ...
Tegelberg R +4 more
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DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European
Dimitrios Koureas +4 more
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At the edge of extinction: a first herpetological assessment of the proposed Serra do Pingano Rainforest National Park in Uíge Province, northern Angola [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020 We systematically assess the herpetofaunal diversity of the Serra do Pingano Forest Ecosystem (SPFE) and additional localities throughout the northern Angolan province of Uíge during four independent Rapid Assessment (RA) field campaigns held between ...
Raffael Ernst +3 more
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Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2023 The lateritic aquifers of the southern Indian state of Kerala harbour a unique assemblage of enigmatic stygobitic fishes which are encountered very rarely, only when they surface during the digging and cleaning of homestead wells.
Rajeev Raghavan +4 more
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