Fourth SYNTHESyS project (SYNTHESYS+) (Friday 16 November 2018)
We are delighted to announce that a fourth SYNTHESYS project (SYNTHESYS+) was favourably evaluated by the EC in August 2018 and preparations are currently underway for SYNTHESYS+ to formally launch in February 2019, running until January 2023.
This project is made in the context of the new European research infrastucture DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) http://www.dissco.eu/, and is coordinated by the NHM of London.
It aims to produce an accessible, integrated European resource for research users in the natural sciences.The novelty of this edition is that it pays a particular attention to the virtual access of natural collections (scan on demand).
For more informations: http://www.synthesys.info/.
Vilmorin Herbarium needs your help ! (Friday 16 November 2018)
We remind you that it is still possible to help saving Vilmorin herbarium by participating at the funding pot which has been launched since this summer.
Vilmorin herbarium is a collection of 80 000 preserved specimen listed as historical monuments. It is a treasure of our heritage.
Be part of the adventure !
Lyon 1 Herbarium in " Silence, ça pousse ! " (Monday 29 October 2018)
"Silence, ça pousse" talked about Lyon 1 Herbarium on 26 October 2018 and it is the opportunity to remind you that it is still possible to contribute to the scanning project at this link.
You can also visualize the parts which have already been scanned .
The Replay of the program :
https://bit.ly/2zd21k7
Thematic day "Participatory sciences" (Friday 19 October 2018)
As part of the Sorbonne University Alliance (ASU), the museum is organizing whith its partners a thematic day about "participatory sciences" which will be held on 13 November 2018 at the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus - International conference center Sorbonne University - 44-54 - first floor.
Program and registration: https://www.su-ite.eu/sciences-participatives-131118/.
Hoping to see you there!
Looking for biodiversity data, here they are ! (Wednesday 17 October 2018)
Recolnat has already digitalized more than 9 Millions of herbarium specimens from french Museums.Totaling 450 years of collects, the specimens contain historical and modern biodiversity data. Recolnat made these data available for research projects in different fields ranging from taxonomy to climate change studies.
However pictures without data are quite hard to use. Therefore, we developed a crowdsourcing program , named LesHerbonautes - (lesherbonautes.mnhn.fr) - allowing citizens to help with the transcription of informations. For an image, participants can transcribe its locality, collector and other data. Each image is viewed several times by different participants in order to have reliable data.
For the third year, we are offering researchers to submit their projects on lesherbonautes.mnhn.fr giving them a way to acquire useful data.
To know more about selection criterias, please visit
the call for proposals.
