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NHM London aims to digitise 20 million specimens within 5 years
June 3, 2015In a bid to push forward drastically its digitisation processes, the Natural History Museum of London launches a 1-day event entitled “Digital Horizons”. NHM Digital Horizons – Opening the NHM’s collections14 July 2015 at...
New CETAF promotional material to download
June 2, 2015The CETAF general secretariat has developed 2 new promotional tools: a poster and a leaflet. Simply click on the pictures to download: ...
ELIXIR granted €19 million from the EU for life-science data infrastructure
June 1, 2015The project ELIXIR-EXCELERATE has been awarded €19 million from the EU to accelerate the implementation of Europe’s life-science data infrastructure over the next four years. From September 2015, ELIXIR-EXCELERATE will work to facilitate the integration of...
CETAF-produced system of stable identifers for online referencing of collections
June 1, 2015The Information Science & Technology (IST) committee from CETAF has designed a future-oriented and easy-to-implement system of stable identifiers for the online referencing of collections. Biological collections are being digitized and made available online at an...