Making fish specimen data and images from natural history collections publicly accessible.

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Participating SNSB institutions
Making sh specimen data and images
from natural history collections publicly accessible
e DFG-funded research infrastructure project IDES was designed
to set up a high performing information infrastructure to be used
by the institutions belonging to the Staatliche Naturwissenschali-
che Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB). Project partners are the Bayeri-
sche Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (BSPG), the
Jura-Museum Eichstätt (JME), the Staatssammlung für Anthropo-
logie und Paläoanatomie München (SAPM), the Zoologische Staats-
sammlung München (ZSM) and the SNSB IT Center. IDES is mo-
bilising data of natural history collection specimens. It focuses on
the sh group Actinopterygii from Europe and adjacent seas, star-
ting from the Mesozoic Era (Trias) until collections of extant shes.
Tanja Weibulat 1, Martin Ebert 2, Martina Kölbl-Ebert 2, Markus Moser 3, Dieter Neubacher 1, Dirk Neumann 4, Henriette Obermaier 5,
Wolfgang Reichert 1, Veronica Sanz 1, Markus Weiss 1, Dagmar Triebel 1
1IT Center of the Bavarian Natural History Collections
Menzinger Straße 67
80638 München
2Jura-Museum Eichstätt
Willibaldsburg
85072 Eichstätt
3Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Richard-Wagner-Str. 10
80333 München
4Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Münchhausenstr. 21
81247 München
5Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie
Kaulbachstraße 37
80539 München
e majority of this data and images are accessible
via several national and international search portals
including those of GBIF and BiNHum (http://wiki.
binhum.net). In the future, IDES data will also be avai-
lable via other portals like GFBio (http://www.gio.
org), GeoCASE, FishBase and FishNet 2. IDES data are
publicly accessible under a Creative Common license.
Several new working processes and data pipelines
are established (http://ides.snsb.info/wiki/IDES_
Digitalisierungsstationen_und_Arbeitsprozesse).
e clients and databases of the DWB are ex-
tended and adapted to special requirements
in the IDES context, e. g. parallel access to li-
tho-, chrono- and biostrategraphy thesauri.
For detailed documentation of the four imaging sta-
tions visit the IDES Wiki under http://ides.snsb.info
or use the QR-Code at the bottom right.
http://ides.snsb.info/wiki
Overview of
(logical and physical)
components and ow
of data in the IDES
project
Until now, more than 28,000 IDES data and 49,000 IDES images
are managed in the Diversity Workbench (DWB, http://www.di-
versityworkbench.net). All images are processed, archived, trans-
formed to various formats, transferred to a SNSB web image ser-
ver and managed together with the contextual data in the DWB.
Innovative imaging facilities were established and adapted to the specic requirements of the various kinds of collection objects, like dried collections of skeletons, wet collec-
tions, micro- and macrofossils, DNA and tissue collections, otoliths and sh scales. Paper documents with location data, species descriptions, drawings etc. are photographed.