The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of
digital biodiversity data. This has thrust natural history museums into the forefront of …

Museum specimens play a crucial role in addressing key questions in systematics,
evolution, ecology, and conservation. With the advent of high‐throughput sequencing …

The era of big biodiversity data has led to rapid, exciting advances in the theoretical and
applied biological, ecological and conservation sciences. While large genetic, geographic …

Natural history collections (NHCs) represent an enormous and largely untapped wealth of
information on the Earth's biota, made available through GBIF as digital preserved specimen …

Natural history collections are leading successful large-scale projects of specimen
digitization (images, metadata, DNA barcodes), thereby transforming taxonomy into a big …

Interdisciplinary collaborations and data sharing are essential to addressing the long history
of human-environmental interactions underlying the modern biodiversity crisis. Such …

More than tools for managing physical and digital objects, museum collection management
systems (CMS) serve as platforms for structuring, integrating, and making accessible the rich …

The need for scientists to exchange, share and organise data has resulted in a proliferation
of biodiversity research-data portals over recent decades. These cyber-infrastructures have …

Egg collections have been poorly studied and cataloged both in Brazil and overseas. In
Brazil, there is a lack of both historical and current tradition of establishing and curating egg …