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