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European natural history specimen information network

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Executive Summary (Database Report)
Museums and Botanical Gardens in Europe house, collectively, a wealth of material in their natural history collections. The central aim of the European Natural History Specimen Information Network was to enable the development of a shared, interoperable infrastructure of natural history specimen databases in European institutions across the Internet. The network, which was developed by seven partner institutions, has provided the potential for much wider access to large amounts of specimen data trapped in museums and herbaria.

More detailed aims and achievements can be seen on the dedicated website (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/enhsin(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)). User needs for access to specimen data were addressed by means of a questionnaire. Software enabling access to sample databases was written and a prototype system is demonstrated on the ENHSIN website providing distributed access to seven databases. Close contact with other international technical forums was forged. Intellectual property issues, which have the potential to impede the free flow of information across the Internet, were assessed against current and varied institutional policies of the network members. Management issues for ENHSIN were explored developed and the aims and achievements of the network were promoted through the website, presentations, and written articles. ENHSIN will be greatly expanded in scope through other EU-supported projects, notably BioCASE (http://www.biocase.org/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) and ENBI (http://www.faunaeur.org/enbi/info.html(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)).

Objectives:
The central aim of the European Natural History Specimen Information Network is to enable the development of a shared, interoperable infrastructure of natural history specimen databases in European institutions. Although exciting developments have been made in producing frameworks for connecting global species databases (Species 2000) and for providing access to the wider content of European natural history collections (BioCISE), there is, at present, no corresponding approach to facilitate access to specimen data. ENHSIN is intended to fill this lacuna. Museums and Botanical Gardens in Europe house, collectively, a wealth of material in their natural history collections and in associated literature and archival data. These resources form the basis for the region's work on taxonomy - the classification of animals, plants, micro-organisms, fossils, and minerals.

Europe is the cradle of taxonomy: its institutions house specimens collected from before the time of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the founder of the subject, to the present day. Powerful personal computers have already been used to store large quantities of data within collections-based institutes, whether in the form of specimen ("unit") data, or "metadata" - such as names and numbers of species represented in particular collections. Computerisation of such data is very advantageous. First, it provides a resource for more effective management of collections. Second, it enables the information to be used in diverse analyses, as, for example, in assessing patterns of species descriptions through time and space. Furthermore, two key developments in Information Technology provide the potential for much wider access to data currently largely trapped within institutions. These developments are the growth of the Internet and the invention of software enabling users to "interoperate" across databases in a range of institutions. They will help to satisfy the growing need for access to information about the planet's living and mineral resources. Seven European organizations are involved in the initial phase of the project. Their aim is to create an operational system for what is hoped to evolve into a pan-European network. The partners will address such issues as defining data standards and assessing intellectual property restrictions. They will select or develop the most effective interoperability software to enable access to specimen databases. The question of broad user needs is being assessed from the very start of the project.

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THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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Cromwell Road The Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD LONDON
Reino Unido

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