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The Hunterian, Glasgow #155

Open kcopas opened 5 years ago

kcopas commented 5 years ago

Founded in 1807, The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum and home to one of the largest collections outside the National Museums. The Hunterian is one of the leading university museums in the world and its collections have been Recognised as a Collection of National Significance. It is one of Scotland’s most important cultural assets.‌

While there may be other collections of interest (e.g. fossil dinosaurs), the zoology collection containing 600,000 specimens, 90 percent of which are insects.

Could be useful to consider collections mobilization/outreach as an outcome of the SBIF Review that Rachel Stroud Tierney (former NBN interim CEO) has been leading...

ahahn-gbif commented 3 years ago

The museum registered as a publisher in Nov. 2020

CecSve commented 2 years ago

Some of their data seems to be published through this publisher: https://www.gbif.org/publisher/85ea280a-dd27-49ed-85a1-93d8ccdc1d13

kcopas commented 2 years ago

I would suspect that Laurence Livermore's work with GRSciColl and NatSCA will nudge this toward a positive conclusion.

CecSve commented 2 years ago

Yes hopefully. As Andrea say, they are registered as publisher but they haven't published any datasets themselves yet.