自然博物 Pub Date : 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.3897/nhcm.2.169440

Frederike Korth, Heimo Rainer, Cristian-Dan Bara, Nedim Begić, Nora Bses, Peter Othmar Bilovitz, Christian Bräuchler, Davide Di Franco, Aylin Durmaz, Roland K. Eberwein, Simon Engelberger, Daniela Festi, J. Georg Friebe, Martin Götzl, Dominique Groffman, Anette Herburger, Peter H. Kaufmann, Stefan Kwitt, Evelyn Kustatscher, Ronald Lintner, Michael Malicky, Konrad Pagitz, Nikolaus Schallhart, Astrid Scharfetter, Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Andreas Tribsch, Romed Unterasinger, Hermann Voglmayr, Alexander Weinmann, Kurt Zernig, Katrin Vohland

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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 博物馆组学、扩展标本组学和集合组学——如何构建和命名与自然历史藏品中标本相关的信息多样性

自然博物 Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.3897/nhcm.2.161331

Martin Kapun, Martin Schwentner, Elisabeth Haring, Nesrine Akkari, Andreas Kroh, Luise Kruckenhauser, Anja Palandačić, Katrin Vohland

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引用次数: 7

Collectomics – towards a new framework to integrate museum collections to address global challenges Collectomics——建立一个整合博物馆藏品的新框架，以应对全球挑战

自然博物 Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.3897/nhcm.2.148855

Julia D. Sigwart, Matthias Schleuning, Angelika Brandt, Markus Pfenninger, Hanieh Saeedi, Thomas Borsch, Eva Häffner, Robert Lücking, Anton Güntsch, Helmuth Trischler, Till Töpfer, Karsten Wesche

{"title":"Collectomics – towards a new framework to integrate museum collections to address global challenges","authors":"Julia D. Sigwart, Matthias Schleuning, Angelika Brandt, Markus Pfenninger, Hanieh Saeedi, Thomas Borsch, Eva Häffner, Robert Lücking, Anton Güntsch, Helmuth Trischler, Till Töpfer, Karsten Wesche","doi":"10.3897/nhcm.2.148855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.2.148855","url":null,"abstract":"Collections’ digitisation is a priority in many natural history collections, and publicly available datasets are expanding rapidly. The potential value of collections remains largely untapped even in modern research, because the vast scope of collections dwarfs current efforts at data mobilisation. Collections are continually expanding, and there are an estimated 3 billion undigitised specimen records worldwide. In this review, we use a simple model to illustrate that current efforts at global digitisation will not succeed until the late 21 st century at the earliest, unless new technologies are harnessed and commitments by funding bodies and society are made. As we advance toward specimen digitisation, an equally important consideration is that the majority of these digital records only represent a fraction of the information potentially available from the collection objects. The term “collectomics” was coined in discussions within the Senckenberg institution as a phrase for digital frameworks that embrace all current and future data and knowledge derived from specimens. This expands on the concept of museomics, which was originally defined to focus on molecular data generated from museum specimens. Rooted in the concept of the extended specimen, collectomics encompasses metadata, images, traits, DNA, and further data extracted in the future with yet unknown applications, all of which are connected to environmental data and other historical contextual information. Thus, a view of digitisation under the collectomics concept is not limited to natural history collections but directly integrates evolutionary, ecosystem and social sciences, including the human contributions of collectors, donors, and researchers in the past and future. A “collectomics” view envisions seamless integration of multidimensional specimen-based data, with interoperability among historical, artistic, ethnographic, and natural history collections, to generate knowledge that is needed to tackle global challenges.","PeriodicalId":59121,"journal":{"name":"自然博物","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://nhcm.pensoft.net/article/148855/download/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147382076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The zoological collections of Portuguese oceanographic campaigns in former colonial territories 葡萄牙在前殖民领土的海洋运动的动物收藏

自然博物 Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.3897/nhcm.1.136860

Diogo Parrinha, Luciano S. Soares, Alexandra Cartaxana, Maria Judite Alves

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引用次数: 4

INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 个人自主和社会责任

自然博物 Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16zjm.6

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National Inventory of Prehistoric Sites 国家史前遗址目录

自然博物 Pub Date : 2018-04-26 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt22zmd1b.22

Louise Estabrooks

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FOLKTALES

自然博物 Pub Date : 2018-04-25 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16sgn.20

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