Collection databases

People interested in the collections of our museum can now research specimens held here quickly, comfortably and from wherever they choose thanks to digital, online databases. Basic information about our collection objects can now be downloaded.   

GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facilities

GBIF allows free access to biodiversity information in natural history collections throughout the world. The Museum für Naturkunde offers GBIF data via BioCASE/ABCD.

SESAM

Object database of the Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. It contains data from sections of the zoological collections including: Crustacea ZMB, Echinodermata ZMB, Bryozoa ZMB, Hydrozoa ZMB, Porifera ZMB, Vermes ZMB.

http://sesam.gbif-evt3.senckenberg.de/

BIODAT MfN/ZFMK

The specimen-based collection information system BIODAT includes parts of the existing taxonomic collections from the Zoologischen Forschungsmuseum Alexander König (ZFMK) in Bonn and the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN).

http://onlinedb.biodat.de/v1/default.asp

BIODAT MfN

This version of the collection information system BIODAT encompasses the Ehrenberg microfossil and the (zoological) fish collection, as well as the portrait collection of the historical section of the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN).

SysTax

SysTax is a central database for biodiversity information held at the University of Ulm. Data for the following animal groups in the Museum für Naturkunde are held in SysTax: arachnids, myriapods and molluscs.

Type material of the Orthoptera-Collection of the Museums für Naturkunde

The types of the Orthoptera collection (ca. 1200 species) are searchable, with digital photographs, in the following database:

http://www.dorsa.de

PaleobiologyDatabase

Database for palaeontological data. This database incorporates global, collection-based and taxonomic data for plants and animals throughout earth history and offers tools for statistical analysis of this information. http://paleodb.org

Contact person at the MfN: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling wolfgang.kiessling@mfn-berlin.de

Paleo Reefs Database

Database for all marine reefs in the pre-Pleistocene Phanerozoic, including mounds and biostromes. Currently around 3500 reef-complexes are included and reef distribution on palaeogeographical maps is presented.

http://193.175.236.205/paleo/ 

ID = paleo, Password = reefs

Contact person at the MfN: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling wolfgang.kiessling@mfn-berlin.de

GeoCASE - Geosciences Collection Access Service

As part of the SYNTHESYS program, the Museum für Naturkunde is compiling basic information to enable geoscience databases in the participating European institutions to be made available via the internet, according to a geoscientifically extended ABCD scheme (Access to Biological Collection Database).

http://projects.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/synthesys_activity_d/project.htm

Contact person at the MfN: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling wolfgang.kiessling@museum.hu-berlin.de

Pilot project GeoCASE at the Museum für Naturkunde

Palaeontological and Mineralogical Databases

In a GeoCASE pilot project, parts of the palaeontological and mineralogical collections are available in the following database:

Ehrenberg Collection

This database offers information about material deposited in Berlin by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795 – 1876), the founder of micropalaeontology and microbiology.

Database of the bioacoustic archive of the Humboldt-University

This database of archived animal sounds allows research within ca. 110,000 recordings, held on over 4,000 tapes and digital media. To access it, your browser must accept cookies.

AMMON - Online database for Palaeozoic ammonoids; Dieter Korn (Berlin) and August Ilg (Düsseldorf)

Currently the database comprises five ammonoid orders, 41 superfamilies, 151 families, 825 genera, and 4500 species from 8500 localities in 65 countries. 1830 references are linked to the localities and taxa. We implemented 1659 figures showing photographs, cross section, septum, and suture outlines as well as ontogenetic series yet.