International Biodiversity Projects and Natural History Museums: Current state and perspectives

Monitoring andSecuring Biodiversity

November 09, 2011, Brussels

International Biodiversity Projects and Natural History Museums:

Current state and perspectives

Klaus Riede

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig



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

http://www.zfmk.de/index.de.html



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



Deutsche Orthopteren Sammlungen - www.dorsa.de

Countries of origin of Orthoptera type material deposited in German museums

http://www.dorsa.de/



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

Developing WorldDeveloping World

BiodiversityBiodiversity

Biodiversity Biodiversity DataData

Developed WorldDeveloped World



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)



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

http://www.trinitatis-kiel.de/wp-content/uploads/achtel_noten-300x279.jpg





Opening up the European Natural History Heritage for EUROPEANA

OpenUp!



The OpenUp! Consortium

Museum of Natural History

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=316935335271

http://www.beatlemanie.cz/index.php/cs/foto-gallery

http://www.zfmk.de/index.de.html

http://www.naturalsciences.be/

http://snm.ku.dk/english/

http://www.ait.co.at/index.html

http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/transverse/transverse/accueil.xsp

http://www.ut.ee/



Europeana Output (mock-up)



EDIT FP6 Network of ExcellencePartnership



EDIT Geo-Platform: mapViewer

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



EDIT goes CETAF:Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities



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



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.)



LifeWatch



Biodiversity projects and Natural History Museums

Biodiv&

NHMs

International Union for Conservation of Nature

International Biodiversity Projects and Natural History Museums: Current state and perspectives

Environment

natural history museums

natural history domain

orthoptera types

private research

german museums dorsa

orthoptera type material

brusselsedit geoplatform

states of germany