Source: National significance of natural history collections in Switzerland, Report 2019
Swiss organisations
Research and Knowledge sharing
- GBIF Swiss Node hosted portal (SwissBIF)
- GBIF Swiss Node official page (GBIF.ch)
- Swiss Association of Natural History Museums (musnatcoll.ch)
- Swiss Systematics Society (SSS)
- Swiss Centre for Species Information (InfoSpecies)
- Nationales Bodeninformationssystem (NABODAT)
- Swiss natural history collections network (SwissCollNet)
Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Association Swiss Barcode of Life (SwissBOL)
Education and Collaboration
- Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)
Online collections
- Natural Science Collections Online - ETH Zürich (NAHIMA)
- Herbarium of the Botanical Garden of the University of Bern (Herbarium Bernense)
- Zurich Herbaria (United Herbaria Z+ZT and Herbarium of the Zurich Succulent Plant Collection (ZSS))
- Naturmuseum Uri (Naturkundemuseum Online)
- hallerNet platform (hallerNet)
3D models of specimens
- Insects in 3D (Insects360)
- Paleontological institute university of Zürich (Palaeontological Collection UZH)
European organisations
Research and Knowledge sharing
- Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF)
- e-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch-ERIC)
- National Network of NAturalist Collections (eReColNat)
Data Infrastructure and mobilisation
- Europeana, portal for digitised cultural heritage collections of european institutions
- Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo)
Initiatives and Projects
- Cost Action Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections (MOBILISE)
- Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage (ICEDIG)
- Synthesis of Systematic Resources, a DiSSCo Project (SYNTHESYS)
Education and Training
- Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST)
International Organisations
Research and Knowledge sharing
- Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Barcode of life Data System (BOLDSYSTEMS)
- Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Data Infrastructure and mobilisation
- Biological Collection Access Service (BioCASe)
- Geosciences Collection Access Service (GeoCASe)
- Biodiversity Information Standards (previously: Taxonomic Databases Working Group) (TDWG)
- GBIF Hosted portals in production (GBIF Hosted portals)
Infrastructure and Initiatives
- Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
Standards & Tools
- DarwinCore Standard (DwC)
- Supplementary help with Darwin Core (OBIS Manual - Darwin Core)
- Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD-Standard)
- GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)
General knowledge and source of information
- SCNAT knowledge - FAQ Biodiversity (Scientific answers to frequently asked questions about biodiversity)
Job opportunities
- Job board (museums.ch)