Ornithology digital library

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The Digital Library for Ornithology (STERNA) was a project completed in 2010/11 by twelve European research museums for the communication and networking of ornithological data. Ornithological information from twelve natural history museums and multimedia archives in Europe are made accessible through this project using semantic web technologies. All content is also available to the European digital library Europeana .

background

Semantic web technologies can support museums in communicating culture by making data available and presenting it across institutions. The project took place in the context of the European Digital Library Initiative and was a pilot project to investigate the potential of such technologies for networking distributed and heterogeneous databases. A uniform search and access to the content were also a goal of the project.

The project consortium comprised 12 museums and other institutions that collect and make data on natural history and biodiversity accessible. The technology company Trezorix worked on the project, Salzburg Research was the project coordinator. The project was co-financed by eContentplus from 2008–2010 and was a best practice network in the digital libraries program line: cultural and scientific content.

Institutions involved

  1. Archipelagos , Greece. Archipelagos is an independent, non-profit environmental organization dealing with the land and marine biology of the Aegean Sea.
  2. DOPPS BirdLife , Slovenia.
  3. Heritage Malta Heritage Malta is a government agency that manages, promotes and preserves Malta's cultural heritage.
  4. Hungarian Natural Science Museum . The Hungarian Natural History Museum has five scientific departments with over ten million natural history objects.
  5. Icelandic Natural History Institute . The Icelandic Natural History Institute is a public government body entrusted with the scientific research and preservation of Iceland's natural heritage.
  6. Natural History Museum / Amaroussion Municipality , Greece. The Amaroussion Natural History Museum has a large collection of embalmed animals. In addition to scientific research, the museum's tasks also include educational and public relations work.
  7. Natural History Museum Luxembourg . In addition to the preservation of the natural history heritage of the country, the tasks of the natural history museum include research as well as educational and public relations work.
  8. Naturalis , Netherlands.
  9. Dutch Institute for Sound and Image . It is one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. The holdings comprise around 70 percent of the audiovisual heritage of the Netherlands.
  10. Royal Museum for Central Africa , Belgium. It is a leading research institute on biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa and in central Africa in particular.
  11. Salzburg Research , Austria. This non-profit research company of the state of Salzburg carries out applied research and development in the fields of information and communication technologies.
  12. Teylers Museum , Netherlands.
  13. Wildscreen / ARKive . Wildscreen is a UK-based and global charity whose core goals are to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and preserve nature through the power of nature images.
  14. Trezorix , Netherlands. Technical partner

Other partner organizations of STERNA

  • Birdpix, Netherlands
  • Natural History Museum Mainz , Germany
  • Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds, Netherlands
  • Museon, Netherlands
  • NABO - North Atlantic Biocultural Organization, USA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STERNA: Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application. Information Society of the European Commission, PDF ( Memento of 7 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  2. ↑ STERNA project sheet. Salzburg Research, as of 07/2010 (PDF).