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UK COLLECTIONS
Learn more about the UK’s digital natural science collections
The state of digitisation
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57%
of institutions are digitising their natural science collections
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23%
of UK specimens have any form of digital record and just 2% are considered research-ready
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78%
of institutions need funding to prioritise natural science collection digitisation
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79%
of institutions do not publish their data externally due to their lack of time and technical expertise
What's in the UK collections?
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137+
million specimens
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12%
fossils
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83
surveyed institutions
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9%
rocks and minerals
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59%
invertebrates including insects
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3%
vertebrates including birds, mammals and fish
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16%
plants
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1%
others including microbial, anthropological & extra-terrestrial specimens
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