About the Institution
The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) conducts research in bio- and geosciences within six research institutes and three natural history museums in Germany. The mission of the SGN is to make science and scientific findings accessible to the public through teaching, publishing, museums and special exhibitions in Frankfurt, Dresden, Görlitz and Tübingen. Senckenberg's research activity is divided into four large research fields: Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Environment, Biodiversity and Climate & Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics.
With about 40 million objects/items in currently more than 200 collections the SGN has one of the largest scientific collections in Germany. The objects involve a herbarium, zoological, anthropological, paleontological and mineralogical collections plus a DNA Bank. SGN is part of the Leibniz association.
About the Data Center
SGN has various interests in different data domains, including: Collection data, molecular data, observational data, environmental data, series of measurements and trait data. Data archiving for research projects is focusing on botanical, zoological and anthropological data, e.g.:
- Collection data, together with the deposit of physical objects, referenced multimedia objects.
- Observation and occurrence data, species monitoring projects, referenced multimedia objects.
- Any type of triple-structured data and referenced multimedia objects.