The Museum für Naturkunde emerged from the union of three separate museums that had been established simultaneously with the founding of the Berlin University in 1810, including: the Anatomical-Zootomical Museum, the Mineralogical Museum (founded in 1814) and the Zoological Museum. From 1889 onwards the museum had to deal with the huge number of objects which were brought to Berlin from the German colonies and large expeditions. On February 3, 1945 the east wing of the museum was destroyed in a bombing raid nevertheless, the Museum für Naturkunde was the first museum in Berlin to be reopened on the 16th of September 1945. The collections still grew through valuable donations, as well as through objects collected on expeditions to Cuba, the People's Republic of Mongolia and the Soviet Union. The Museum für Naturkunde was reorganised after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Reunification. In 2005 a considerable change in the exhibitions started as about one third of the exhibition area is currently being modernized. 2006 the museum was again reorganised and by the end of 2006, the reconstruction of the bombed east wing began. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin are glad to welcome you to the 2016 SPNHC conference, held from June 20 through 25, 2016, in Berlin, Germany. Under the heading “Green Museum – How to practice what we preach?” this 4th meeting of the society evaluates green thinking in collections, museums and botanical gardens. In a world of climate change and ever decreasing biodiversity, sustainability should be the criterion that ideally determines all planning and decisions, ranging from field work to construction projects, from ethical aspects to cost-benefit analyses. In practice this often is compromised by constraints beyond the control of the institution, be it monetary, legal or other. The conference will offer a forum to discuss possible ways of reconciling the seemingly opposing requirements. We welcome your contributions to this or other topics and look forward to hosting you in 2016. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Darwin Core (sometimes abbreviated as DwC) is a standard designed to facilitate the exchange of information about the geographic occurrence of species and the existence of specimens in collections. Extensions to the Darwin Core provide a mechanism to share additional information, which may be discipline-specific, or beyond the commonly agreed upon scope of the Darwin Core itself. This wiki is open to anyone interested in the topic, but you must be a registered user to edit pages and add content. This site is meant to provide access to everything anyone needs to know about the Darwin Core. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections have been in its keeping since 1829. As it moves into its third century the Society continues to play a central role in the documentation of the world’s flora and fauna – as Linnaeus himself did – recognising the continuing importance of such work to biodiversity conservation. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to the special exhibition "Der Fluss des Lebens - 150 Jahre Evolutionstheorie" (The River of Life - 150 years Theory of Evolution), by Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart (Germany). The exhibition will open on 1st October, 2009. On these web pages, you will find the latest information about the exhibition, and about evolutionary theory in general. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
This blog is an outcome of the community round-table discussion hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder on September 17, 2010. Meeting hosts Patrick Kociolek and Robert Guralnick, both of the CU Museum of Natural History have agreed to continue the round-table discussion, here on this blog. Technical support is provided by David Bloom from VertNet. ... [Information of the supplier]
The project´s main objective is to exemplarily develop a specification for an annotation data repository for networked and highly complex scientific data. AnnoSys is based on a prototype developed in the context of SYNTHESYS and uses the Open Ontology and the Open Annotation Extension Specification of the Open Annotation Community Group and an RDF-database for storing the information. AnnoSys will be implemented using the example of collection and observation data in the botanic domain provided by the GBIF/BioCASE system. Analogical to the traditional, written annotation of natural history collection objects, e.g. concerning their taxonomic identity, a procedure is established for data available via the internet. This will allow annotations of single data sets as well as mass annotations for sets of collection objects. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Das Sammeln und Bewahren von Kulturgütern ist eine der Kernaufgaben von Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken. Im Zeitalter digitaler Medien hat sich dieser traditionelle Auftrag verändert, da neben physischen Objekten auch digitale Güter gesichert und dauerhaft verfügbar gemacht werden müssen. Diese (oft originär) digitalen Informationen haben vielfältige Datenformate und sind einem schnellen Alterungsprozess unterworfen. Eine schnellstmögliche Entwicklung adäquater Strategien um die enorme Menge an Informationen zu archivieren sind damit unumgänglich. Archivierung bedeutet für Gedächtnisinstitutionen wie Museen jedoch nicht nur die alleinige Speicherung sondern vielmehr die Sicherstellung eines dauerhaften Zugriffs auf die Informationen. Die Tagung gliedert sich in vier Sektionen: (1) Weitergabe und Import von Daten und Metadaten; (2) Verwaltung und Pflege von Sammlungs- und Multimediadaten; (3) Backup von Sammlungs- und Multimediadaten (Speicherung und Langzeitarchivierung); (4) Datenzugriff, Verfügbarkeit und Veröffentlichung. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
The International Society for Biocuration's conference "Biocuration 2017" will be held next March at Stanford University in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco. [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Natural Science Collections Association will be holding their next annual conference & AGM on 20 & 21 April 2017. The event will be hosted by the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. This conference, "Evolving Ideas: provocative new ways of working with collections", aims to generate real food for thought for anyone interested in enhancing how museums with natural sciences collections operate. We want to provoke, explore and inspire new ways of working. What have you learnt that the rest of the sector would benefit from knowing? What would you like to see museums with natural sciences collections do differently? The #NatSCA2017 conference theme is wide – we want two days of sharing and discussion about how the sector could do things better. What are the outcomes of your recent projects that you think colleagues in other museums would benefit from? Have you developed a new practice that you want to share? Do you have a provocation for changing the way we do things? The range of possible topics is broad, but all sessions should focus on findings that will be useful for other delegates to hear, or provocations for changing practice. ... [Information of the supplier]
