Digitisation of the fossil Actinopterygii collection

Section Fossil Fish, Amphibians & Sauropsids

Pilot project for the systematic reorganisation and digitisation of the BSPG’s collection

Since 2012, part of a DFG-funded project of the Bavarian Natural History Collections (SNSB) has been carried out at the BSPG: “Integrated Data Management for the Digital Indexing of Zoological and Palaeontological Collections (IDES)”. The pilot project is intended to advance the systematic reorganisation and digitisation of the BSPG’s collection holdings and is initially focused on a specific group, region and time period, namely the fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) of Europe and adjacent seas from the Mesozoic onwards. The digitisation (image capture and data acquisition) of the collection’s holdings is intended to support collection management (loan transactions, inventory) and enable integration into global databases (e.g. GBIF). The latter database is the prerequisite for many current and future palaeobiodiversity research projects. The international research community is thus given an insight into the collection holdings.

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG).

Staff: Markus Moser, Oliver Rauhut