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Links

Associations, organisations, information networks, databases and current projects or initiatives

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

3D models of specimens


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


General knowledge and source of information


Job opportunities

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