Collectomics – towards a new framework to integrate museum collections to address global challenges
Опубликована: Март 28, 2025
Collections’
digitisation
is
a
priority
in
many
natural
history
collections,
and
publicly
available
datasets
are
expanding
rapidly.
The
potential
value
of
collections
remains
largely
untapped
even
modern
research,
because
the
vast
scope
dwarfs
current
efforts
at
data
mobilisation.
Collections
continually
expanding,
there
an
estimated
3
billion
undigitised
specimen
records
worldwide.
In
this
review,
we
use
simple
model
to
illustrate
that
global
will
not
succeed
until
late
21
st
century
earliest,
unless
new
technologies
harnessed
commitments
by
funding
bodies
society
made.
As
advance
toward
digitisation,
equally
important
consideration
majority
these
digital
only
represent
fraction
information
potentially
from
collection
objects.
term
“collectomics”
was
coined
discussions
within
Senckenberg
institution
as
phrase
for
frameworks
embrace
all
future
knowledge
derived
specimens.
This
expands
on
concept
museomics,
which
originally
defined
focus
molecular
generated
museum
Rooted
extended
specimen,
collectomics
encompasses
metadata,
images,
traits,
DNA,
further
extracted
with
yet
unknown
applications,
connected
environmental
other
historical
contextual
information.
Thus,
view
under
limited
but
directly
integrates
evolutionary,
ecosystem
social
sciences,
including
human
contributions
collectors,
donors,
researchers
past
future.
A
envisions
seamless
integration
multidimensional
specimen-based
data,
interoperability
among
historical,
artistic,
ethnographic,
generate
needed
tackle
challenges.
Язык: Английский
Collectomics – towards a new framework to integrate museum collections to address global challenges
Опубликована: Март 28, 2025
Collections’
digitisation
is
a
priority
in
many
natural
history
collections,
and
publicly
available
datasets
are
expanding
rapidly.
The
potential
value
of
collections
remains
largely
untapped
even
modern
research,
because
the
vast
scope
dwarfs
current
efforts
at
data
mobilisation.
Collections
continually
expanding,
there
an
estimated
3
billion
undigitised
specimen
records
worldwide.
In
this
review,
we
use
simple
model
to
illustrate
that
global
will
not
succeed
until
late
21
st
century
earliest,
unless
new
technologies
harnessed
commitments
by
funding
bodies
society
made.
As
advance
toward
digitisation,
equally
important
consideration
majority
these
digital
only
represent
fraction
information
potentially
from
collection
objects.
term
“collectomics”
was
coined
discussions
within
Senckenberg
institution
as
phrase
for
frameworks
embrace
all
future
knowledge
derived
specimens.
This
expands
on
concept
museomics,
which
originally
defined
focus
molecular
generated
museum
Rooted
extended
specimen,
collectomics
encompasses
metadata,
images,
traits,
DNA,
further
extracted
with
yet
unknown
applications,
connected
environmental
other
historical
contextual
information.
Thus,
view
under
limited
but
directly
integrates
evolutionary,
ecosystem
social
sciences,
including
human
contributions
collectors,
donors,
researchers
past
future.
A
envisions
seamless
integration
multidimensional
specimen-based
data,
interoperability
among
historical,
artistic,
ethnographic,
generate
needed
tackle
challenges.
Язык: Английский