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BiNHum: powerful access to Natural History Collections

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Abstract

The BiNHum project is a collective effort of five natural history museums and research collections of the Humboldt-Ring in Germany to collect, centralize and publish collection data in a unified web portal. The portal and the underlying data workflows provide an extensive set of tools to refine and enrich collection data from various sources. It provides a powerful, fast and intuitive search. As an additional benefit for current data providers and to encourage new providers to share data, we implemented a search widget as a light weight version of the portal. The widget enables users to implement their own custom search within their homepage with only minimal effort. All BiNHum collection data, search functions, user annotations and data representations (including map view, multimedia files and data exports) of the portal are also available within the widget. The widget is maintained by the BiNHum project and new portal developments are automatically deployed to the widget installations. Using the search widget makes it easy for museums, institutes and curators to display their own data on their personal pages, prefiltered by own criteria and adapted to local layout preferences.