scholarly journals iCollections methodology: workflow, results and lessons learned

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Blagoderov ◽  
Malcolm Penn ◽  
Mike Sadka ◽  
Adrian Hine ◽  
Stephen Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Collection Date

The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections. The first phase of this programme was to undertake a series of pilot projects to develop the workflows and infrastructure needed to support mass digitisation of very large scientific collections. This paper presents the results of one of the pilot projects – iCollections. This project digitised all the lepidopteran specimens usually considered as butterflies, 181,545 specimens representing 89 species from the British Isles and Ireland. The data digitised includes, species name, georeferenced location, collector and collection date - the what, where, who and when of specimen data. In addition, a digital image of each specimen was taken. A previous paper explained the way the data were obtained and the background to the collections that made up the project. The present paper describes the technical, logistical, and economic aspects of managing the project.

scholarly journals iCollections methodology: workflow, results and lessons learned

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Blagoderov ◽  
Malcolm Penn ◽  
Mike Sadka ◽  
Adrian Hine ◽  
Stephen Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Collection Date

The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections. The first phase of this programme was to undertake a series of pilot projects to develop the workflows and infrastructure needed to support mass digitisation of very large scientific collections. This paper presents the results of one of the pilot projects – iCollections. This project digitised all the lepidopteran specimens usually considered as butterflies, 181,545 specimens representing 89 species from the British Isles and Ireland. The data digitised includes, species name, georeferenced location, collector and collection date - the what, where, who and when of specimen data. In addition, a digital image of each specimen was taken. A previous paper explained the way the data were obtained and the background to the collections that made up the project. The present paper describes the technical, logistical, and economic aspects of managing the project.

Metamelanea umbonata new to the British Isles

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
History Museum

During a visit to the Natural History Museum London I examined material of the genus Porocyphus from the British Isles. A collection labelled Porocyphus coccodes [Scotland, Forfar, Caenlochan, on damp, E-facing rock (±basic), 1700 ft, 10 viii 1968, P. James (BM)] turned out to be a well-developed specimen of Metamelanea umbonata Henssen. Another two specimens from Scotland sent to me for identification belong here as well: Mid-Perth, Bread-albana, Creag Mhòr, S-facing cliffs, 700–800 m, 27/39.35, 6 vii 1979, B. Coppins 4573 (E, hb M. Schultz); Angus, Caenlochan Glen (N side), Glasallt Burn, W-facing cliffs, on vertical flushed granite cliff face, 800 m, 37/17, 7 viii 1989, B. Coppins 13383 & O. Gilbert (E, hb M. Schultz).

scholarly journals History of the publishing activity of the State Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
O. Klymyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Publishing Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Collections

The publishing activity of the museum for the whole period of its existence is analyzed, starting from the first published in the museum by V. Didushitsky in 1880 and up to 2018 inclusive. Approximately this work is about 3.5 thousand publications, among which 84 monographs; 35 issues of the scientific miscellany "Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum"; 5 issues of the book series "Scientific Collections of the State Natural History Museum"; more than 50 catalogs of museum collections, thematic miscellanies, qualifiers, dictionaries and guides; about 2.2 thousand scientific articles; about 1 thousand materials and abstracts of reports of scientific conferences, as well as dozens of popular scientific articles, brochures and booklets.

scholarly journals A contribution to knowledge on the terrestrial malacofauna of the Kastellorizo (Megisti) island group (SE Greece)

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moisis Mylonas ◽  
Katerina Vardinoyannis ◽  
Nikos Poulakakis
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Snail Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Island Group ◽  
Scientific Collections

Abstract Background The Kastellorizo island group (in the Dodecanese, Greece) is situated in the southeast corner of the Aegean Archipelago. It consists of twenty islets, of which the three largest (Kastellorizo, Ro and Strongyli) and seven smaller ones belong to Greece. Knowledge of the malacofauna on the islands is relatively poor. Only eight species were known prior to the present study, all from the islet of Kastellorizo. Results Here, using the scientific collections at the Natural History Museum of Crete collected mainly by the authors and also by several researchers since 1976, we reappraise the malacofauna of the island group. Thirty-one species were found in total (23 from Kastellorizo, 19 from Ro, 15 from Strongyli, 10 from Agios Georgios, 14 from Agrielia, 6 from Psomi and 10 from Psoradia). Conclusions The fact that there are no endemic snail species in the islands can be accounted for by their proximity to the Turkish coast, their common paleogeography with Turkey until the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, and the influence of humans. All but two species, Mastus etuberculatus and Vitrea riedeliana, are known from the adjacent Turkish coasts. Together with the subfossil species found on the smaller islets, the predominance of different species on each islet suggests a continuous substitution from the source areas of Turkey and the Aegean.

scholarly journals The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection

Collections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-380
Author(s):  
Consuelo Sendino
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
Label Content

This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica.

Ampelisca dalmatinaandA. provincialis(Amphipoda: Gammaridea) in Irish waters

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Myers ◽  
D. McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Gulf Of Guinea ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Portuguese Coast ◽  
The Mediterranean

The distribution ofAmpelisca aequicornisBruzelius is said to extend from Norway southwards to the Gulf of Guinea (Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 1988) and it has been recorded from British and Irish waters (Norman, 1900; Metzger, 1875). There do not appear to be any recent records. A number of specimens in The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) collections, labelledAmpelisca aequicornis, were examined by Lincoln (1979) who reported that only Galway Bay material was referable toA. aequicornisor “at least to theaequicorniscomplex”. This we can confirm from our own study of the NHM material. We have re-examined the Galway Bay specimen referred to by Lincoln (1979) and find it to differ fromA. aequicornisin several ways and to be closest toA. dalmatinaKaraman, previously known only from the Mediterranean and the Portuguese coast (Marques & Bellan-Santini, 1991, 1993). It also closely resemblesA. pusillaSars andA. ambylopsSars, but those two species lack cuticular eyes.Ampelisca aequicornisis therefore not confirmed to occur in the waters of the British Isles.

scholarly journals Key to adult flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of the British Isles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Whitmore ◽  
Steen Dupont ◽  
Steven Falk
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Flesh Flies

We present a key for the identification of males and females of 62 species of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) occurring in the British Isles, following the addition of several species to the British and Irish checklists in the last few years. Footnotes with characters for identification are given for an additional two (2) recently discovered species still awaiting publication, whereas a third species, Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) tibialis Macquart, 1851, known only from a single record from the 1970s, is not included. The key is based on the study of approximately 10,000 specimens held in the research collections of the Natural History Museum, London and is supplemented by colour photographs of diagnostic characters. The key allows for the identification of all males and 88% of females, the latter without the need for any special preparation or dissection of specimens. Emphasis is placed on characters of the external morphology not requiring a full dissection of the specimens, with the objective of maximising identification accuracy and reaching a wider user base for application in ecological studies, biological recording and forensic investigations.

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