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The Confederation supports SwissCollNet and its digital platform of natural science collections for research
The federal government is promoting an improved access to natural science collections with a total amount of CHF 12.37 million until 2024. The digitised collections provide unique data for climate, biodiversity or agricultural research, for example. To this end, the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has launched the Swiss Natural History Collections Network, SwissCollNet, to collaborate with museums, universities, and botanical gardens in laying the foundations for the digitisation and long-term management and use of the collections.
Immagine: ETHZ-BIB/Pierre Kellenberger
Wissenschaft zeigen (2): Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen für die Forschung – eine Nationale Initiative
Landwirtschaft, Artenschutz, Verkehrsinfrastrukturen – viele Erkenntnisse basieren auf Wissen aus naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen. In der Schweiz lagern über 60 Millionen Objekte verteilt in allen Kantonen – ein unschätzbarer Wert für die Wissenschaft.
Immagine: © Plattform Biologie
La Suisse fait un mauvais usage de ses collections scientifiques
La Suisse tend à faire mauvais usage de ses vastes collections de sciences naturelles, lesquelles contiennent plus de 60 millions d'objets. À l'heure actuelle, seulement 17 % des objets sont enregistrés numériquement et donc réellement accessibles pour l'évaluation scientifique. C'est ce que montre le rapport «Importance nationale des collections suisses de sciences naturelles» de l'Académie suisse des sciences naturelles (SCNAT). Par conséquent, la SCNAT préconise d’ investir davantage pour faire en sorte que les collections constituent une infrastructure de recherche réellement efficace.
Immagine: Naturhistorisches Museum BaselNational significance of natural history collections in Switzerland
Biological and geoscience collections form an important part of our rich scientific heritage and provide the basis for much of what we know today about our planet and how we humans have influenced it. Natural history collections help us to understand our past and present better, thereby providing a basis for predicting the future. They also serve as biobanks for preserving the Earth’s organismic and genomic diversity, and must not only be maintained, but also supplemented so that scientists can continue to document and explore life on Earth. As new investigative techniques emerge, we can discover more from studying such intact and well-preserved collections.
Immagine: Akademien Schweiz
