Digitisation projects

Dataset name	Description	Estimated number of records
Seidenfaden Orchid Database	DanBIF has structured the data input in the registration of all material from the orchid specialist Gunnar Seidenfaden at the Botanical Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark. A student has been trained by DanBIF to scan drawings and slides of the specimens. This material will be available online with technical assistance from DanBIF	10.000
Galathea II, the published specimens	DanBIF has digitised the specimens recorded and described in the Galathea Reports 1-20. With assistance from DanBIF, the articles in Galathea Reports relevant to this has been scanned and transformed into pdf files available online	1.825Project homepage: http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/Galathea/index.html
P. V. Lund material in the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark	DanBIF initiated registration and illustration of a part of the rich P. V. Lund material from Lagoa Santa in Brazil	88Project homepage: http://www.zmuc.dk/VerWeb/lund/lund_mammals.html
Danish waterbugs in the collections of the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark	DanBIF has contributed with a volunteer who has digitised the specimens	17.596
Danish Coleopteran Catalogue	DanBIF has built database structures for digitising the information previous on paper and contributes with a volunteer who, together with a volunteer from the Coleopteran community, digitises the records	24.000
Danish Spider Catalogue	DanBIF financed a workshop with Danish arachnologists to discuss and plan how to build a joint database platform for spider registrations	20.000
Bird registration from Danish lighthouses	The light from lighthouses traps birds that get killed and it has been a long tradition in Denmark to report such dead birds to the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark. This century-long information is digitised by a DanBIF volunteer	1030
Danish Ants in the collections of the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark	A volunteer supplied and trained by DanBIF, has digitised the specimens of ants in the Zoological Museum collections	11.000
Zoological Museum amber collection, Natural History Museum of Denmark	Amber containing animals. DanBIF has created a database for registration of the specimens in the amber collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and contributes with a volunteer, who digitises the information	2.500
Danish herbarium at KU LIFE (Faculty of Life Sciences)	DanBIF has built a database for registration of the herbarium specimens of the KU LIFE herbarium of Danish plants. An employee at LIFE is doing the registration, based on training by DanBIF staff	60.000
DBL freshwater gastropod and mollusc collection	DanBIF has with a small grant initiated the digitisation of the freshwater gastropod and mollusc collection at the Mandahl Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity and Health (former Danish Bilharziose Laboratory). The digitisation process and data structure is planned and accomplished in close cooperation with DanBIF staff	20.000

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