Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Integrated data management for mobilisation and digitalisation of zoological and palaeontological collections (IDES)

• Applicants: Privatdozentin Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert; Dr. Markus Moser; Dr. Henriette Obermaier; Dr. Ulrich Schliewen; Dr. Dagmar Triebel
• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: from 2012 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 204081859

The project IDES aims to set up a high performing information infrastructure which will be commonly used by four research collections belonging to the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB). The worldwide unique ichthyological collections are housed in separate buildings in Munich and Eichstätt and belong to four administrative independent institutions (Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie München and Zoologische Staatssammlung München). IDES will mobilise and digitalise the data and metadata of Actinopterygii from Europe and adjacent seas, starting from the Mesozoic era (Trias) until collections of extant fishes. Mobile work stations with innovative imaging facilities will be established and adapted to the specific requirements of the various kinds of collection objects (dried collections of skeletons, wet collections, fossils, DNA and tissue collections) accompagnied by text information on paper documents with location data, descriptions etc. At the end of the project the data for more than 50.000 objects with 10.000 images will be accessible via the relational database system Diversity Workbench (DWB). This allows a sustainable and integrative data management and data flow starting with the imaging process, decentral data entry in the collection storage rooms until a central data archiving and data processing in close cooperation with the IT Center of the SNSB. The data flow includes the connexion of the data sources to various web interfaces, wrapper installations and the data publication in international data networks like GBIF, FishBase and FishNet 2.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Persons: Dirk Neumann; Professor Dr. Oliver Rauhut, Ph.D.