Austria Unites 14 Institutions to Digitize 56 Million Natural History Specimens
OSCA, a consortium of 14 Austrian museums, universities, and scientific institutions, is building a FAIR-compliant national data infrastructure to digitize ...
Tag: biodiversity data
Collectomics: Integrating Museum Data for Global Challenges
A new framework called collectomics aims to integrate museum collections to address global challenges by leveraging advanced digitization and interdisciplinary ...
A 2006 Snapshot of 108,000 Wintering Waterbirds Along China’s Fujian Coast Goes Public
A newly standardised dataset from a February 2006 survey records 108,125 wintering waterbirds across 21 coastal wetlands in Fujian Province, ...
Hidden in Plain Reports: 5,000 Records of Korea’s Endangered Mammals Go Open
Researchers at Korea's National Institute of Ecology have compiled 5,000 occurrence records of six endangered mammal taxa from environmental impact ...
GBIF at 25: The Open Data Machine Behind Global Biodiversity Science
Twenty-five years ago, a handful of governments bet that the fastest route to saving life on Earth ran through something ...
Rescuing centuries of frog and snake records on Africa’s isolated islands
A new study compiles 6,185 records of São Tomé & Príncipe's amphibians and reptiles from museums, literature and citizen science, ...
Massive Cell-by-Cell Phytoplankton Dataset Opens a Window on Europe’s Vanishing Lagoons
A newly harmonized dataset of more than 104,000 individual phytoplankton trait records from 14 Mediterranean and Black Sea lagoons provides ...
Segregation’s Ecological Legacy: How Divided Cities Face Unequal Floods, Heat and Green Space
A PNAS special feature organized by Cary Institute researchers shows that segregation operates as a self-reinforcing social-ecological system shaping flood ...
Twenty-Five Years of Open Biodiversity Data: How GBIF Grew to 3.8 Billion Records
After 25 years, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility has grown from 21 founding countries into a network spanning 70 nations ...
Ocean Data Gets a FAIR Upgrade to Power Sustainable Seas
New research in npj Ocean Sustainability argues that aligning marine spatial data infrastructures with FAIR principles and open science is ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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