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The Natural History Museum of Prague brings public awareness to taxonomy
July 8, 2015NHM Prague (Czech Republic) has opened a new temporary exhibition entitled “How should we name it?” The general audience is invited to visit the exhibition and suggest the name of a newly discovered beetle. “The exhibition...
Naturalis getting brand new facilities in 2018
June 3, 2015The Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands is getting ready for a massive transformation. Having recently merged with three university institutes and seeing the annual number of visitors to the museum grow to 300.000, Naturalis...
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...