Former staff membersCurrent research projects
Scientific communication infrastructure
The DFG funded WissKI project will support cooperative scientific work with semantic 'Wiki' technologies. Project partners are the German Nationalmuseum (GNM; IT-Department) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU; Chair of Artificial Intelligence [Inf8]) . http://wiss-ki.eu
interconnected collections of aquatic organisms
The aim of the project is the digitization of aquatic organisms in natural history collections at a high quality level. Thereby all primary data such as information on collecting- and determination events etc. will be made sustainably available via the internet. Projectpartner are: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg" (FIS, Frankfurt/M.), Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) of the Humboldt-University , Berlin and the Zoologisches Institut und Museum of Hamburg University.
Capacity building in biodiversity information systems for insects and plants in East Africa
The aim of the project is the deposition and digitization of voucher specimen from different
BIOTA Africa projects in Kenya (at the National Museum NMK in Nairobi) and in Germany (at the Zoologischen Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig in Bonn). Since the retroactive digitization of collection objects is normally not integrated in the daily workflow of museums staff, the capacity building in Kenya is one key position of the project.
BIOTA E15 is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF.
Biological Specimens Database
A specimen based ZFMK-database for zoological data. The flexible database-system includes systematic and geographic thesauri which work completely with synonyms. The collections can be opened at different levels, e.g. phylum-, class- or order level. Data are available online via BIODAT and the BIOCASE - and GBIF -portals.
BIODAT is a standing project of the ZFMK.
Completed research projects
Digitization of key insect groups
Aim of the project was the digital complete-acquisition of individuals of representative insect orders and the development of a 'best practice' to capture cost-efficiently collections of natural history museums at a high quality level.
DIG was financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF.
German Orthoptera collection
DORSA is a specimen based database with internet-access to important Orthoptera collections of German museums. It includes worldwide geographic information as well as medial datas like images of the type specimens and acoustic records ("virtual museum").
DORSA was financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF.
Inventory of biological collections in Germany
All data, which are so far available on German botanical and zoological collections, had been pooled in
ZEFOD
, systematized and provided as a expandable, interactive information system via the internet. In addition to an overview of the collection stock, the information system contains a structural and content-orientated description of biological collections of Germany.
ZEFOD was financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF.
ZEFOD was financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF.
