Digital databases of the NHM Vienna 

The aim of the NHM Vienna is to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in Austria, Europe and the world. This goal is to be achieved through various measures. These include the museum's excellent disciplinary, interdisciplinary and participatory research, as well as the digital accessibility of its own collections and research results. 


DIVINA - Digital Information for Vienna Natural History Museum 

In a participatory process, the NHM Vienna has developed a coherent database to manage and visualise all collections. The core of the database is the so-called 'Superthesaurus', which allows the central management of recurring information elements (taxonomy, geography, chronology, stratigraphy, etc.). This improves the quality of the data. It also makes it easier to search for information on objects that have a common provenance but were historically deposited in different collections or came to the NHM Vienna at different times. 
 
As of February 2025, the database model, the basic structure of the user interface and a tool for quickly designing labels (Label Designer) will be available. The first collection databases of the NHM Vienna, Myriapoda and Aves, have already been migrated to the new system.
 
The database will also be used to manage and display the digital copies created as part of the 'Kulturerbe digital' funding programme, and to link them to the Kulturpool portal
 
Now there is also a name - DIVINA. For the phonetically familiarised public, it is immediately clear what this refers to: "Die Wiener (The Viennese)".
 

 

Data Repository

The NHM Vienna Data Repository is an institutional repositorium of the Natural History Museum Vienna established for sharing, storage and publication of research data generated at the NHM Vienna, by NHM Vienna researchers and their collaboration partners or research data on NHM Vienna objects generated by external researchers.

contact: microCT@NHM.AT


 

GitHub

The Natural History Museum Vienna's GitHub account contains repositories of open source software created at the museum for research projects in the fields of bioinformatics and digital archaeology. You will also find the source code of our research database and the NHM data repository.
 
contact: Martin Kapun, PhD and Dr. Stefan Eichert
e-mail: martin.kapun@nhm.at and stefan.eichert@nhm.at

 
  
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