Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe |
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Biological collection
The term is understood to include the
following main categories: living collections (micro-organisms,
botanical and zoological gardens), natural history collections
(mainly in museums and universities), data collections (such as
used in faunistic and floristic mapping projects), as well as new
forms of biological collections (e.g. natural products,
collections with the aim to preserve endangered species, and gene
banks).
Collection
information system
The term is here used for systems recording data on
individual biological objects. This includes accessions in
natural history collections and living collections, as well as
records in surveys (e.g. floristic or faunistic mapping
projects).
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