international biodiversity projects and natural history museums: current state and perspectives

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International Biodiversity Projects and Natural History Museums:

Current state and perspectives

Klaus Riede

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

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Who we are• Zoological Research Museum

Alexander Koenig,founded as a private research and exhibition institute by Alexander Koenig (1858-1940), is one of the major natural history research museums in the Federal Republic of Germany. As a member of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (WGL) the ZFMK is jointly funded by the state of Northrhine-Westphalia, the other states of Germany and the federal government.

• Scientific collections:an estimated 350,000 specimens of vertebrates (GBIF-D Vertebrate node) several million specimens of insectsGBIF provider through BIODAT and SYSTAX

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9 July 1998 Volume 394 Issue no 6689

Currently considered as a hybrid between Diphyllodes magnificus and Cicinnurus regiusMagnificent x King Bird of Paradise ZMA 782

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Deutsche Orthopteren Sammlungen - www.dorsa.de

Countries of origin of Orthoptera type material deposited in German museums

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GBIF –the Global Biodiversity Information GBIF –the Global Biodiversity Information Facility- Facility- was established to redress the inequality of data distribution

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What is our content

• High quality type photographs:Orthoptera types in German museums (DORSA: Digital Orthoptera Specimen Access)Vertebrate types: appr. 20,000 pics (TIFF/jpg(

• Sounds appr. 5,000 (wav)• Fieldbooks and field photographs (observations)

e.g. Verkest Archive: 125,000 slides,60,000 digitized/annotated

José Verkest (1917-2005),Colonel of the Cologne section of the Belgian army in Germany

• Coming up: 3D data (microCT, sceleton scans)

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Multimedia objects from the natural history domain are still dramatically underrepre-sented in EUROPEANA!

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Opening up the European Natural History Heritage for EUROPEANA

OpenUp!

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The OpenUp! Consortium

Museum of Natural History

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Europeana Output (mock-up)

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EDIT FP6 Network of ExcellencePartnership

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EDIT Geo-Platform: mapViewer

=> Pere Roca Ristol & al.: EDIT mapViewer: a Geographic Web Application for Taxonomists

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EDIT goes CETAF:Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities

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EDIT goes CETAF:Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities: Secretariat to be installed inBrussels Museum

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CETAF Secretariat Workplan – continuation of EDIT activities

• Information Science and Technology Commission• European Collection Policy Board• Distributed European School of Taxonomy• EJT e-Journal for Taxonomy• Scratchpads• European Consortium for the Barcode of Life• All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory+Monitoring• Digital libraries – BHL Europe, Open Up!, etc.)

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LifeWatch

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Biodiversity projects and Natural History Museums

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NHMs

International Union for Conservation of Nature