- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Research Data Management Practices
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Water resources management and optimization
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Water Systems and Optimization
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2020
More than tools for managing physical and digital objects, museum collection management systems (CMS) serve as platforms structuring, integrating, making accessible the rich data embodied by natural history collections. Here we describe Arctos, a scalable community solution publishing global biological, geological, cultural collections research education. Specific goals are to: (1) Describe core features implementation of Arctos broad audience with respect to biodiversity informatics...
Abstract Museum collections house millions of objects and associated data records that document biological cultural diversity. In recent decades, digitization efforts have greatly increased accessibility to these data, thereby revolutionizing interdisciplinary studies in evolutionary biology, biogeography, epidemiology, change, human-mediated environmental impacts. Curators collection managers can make museum as accessible possible scientists learners by using a management system. However,...