current trends in biodiversity collection description neil thomson the natural history museum
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Current Trends in Biodiversity Collection
Description
Neil ThomsonThe Natural History Museum
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Summary
• Characteristics of biodiversity collections
• Collection descriptions at the NHM• UK and European initiatives• The wider picture – international
and global initiatives• Challenges
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Biodiversity Collections
• Types of biodiversity collection• Value of collections• Benefits of data sharing• Who are the users?
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Institutional Level
• Collections and databases at the NHM
• CLD project
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Reasons for CLD at the NHM
"Access to collections" initiative. Speedier coverage than at item level Verbose records, complementing databases. Recording information provided by visitors Detailed records for researchers / audit Cross-searching of ALL collections at the NHM Strategic planning Re-uniting scattered collections Provides data for external initiatives
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National Level
• Fenscore• National Biodiversity Network• BioCASE National Nodes
– contain records for biological collections in the country whether or not a database exists.
– NHM is the UK National Node
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The BioCASE Collection-Level Profile
• 3 levels– Collection– Organisation– Network
• 4 main data blocks– Descriptive– Adminstrative– Keywords– Related
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What does it look like?
• Currently at a very early stage of development.
• Software provided by Berlin Botanic Garden, based on a metadata profile developed at the NHM.
• Pre-seeded with data from the earlier BioCISE project. – Little data for each collection and mainly
free text.
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European Level
• BioCASE – Framework V funded – 3 year project ending October 2004– 31 participating countries– Coordinated by the Berlin Botanic
Garden
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Two-level access
• BioCASE caters for information at unit level (specimen or observation) as well as at collection level.
• Unit-level records will be accessed directly in participating databases.
• Collection-level records will be accessed through each country’s National Node.
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International & Global Levels
• ABCD– Access to Biological Collections Data– Adds North America and Australia
• GBIF– Global Biodiversity Information
Facility– Promoting the use of global data standards
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Challenges
• Addressing the needs of different audiences
• Organism names• Place names• Getting the data