MOLLUSKS
Digitisation
Digital cataloguing of prominent malacological collections in Austria.
Malacological reference collections provide valuable data for long-term observations and are, particularly within this group of organisms, one of the most important foundations for faunistic documentation and research.
Among the most important collections of recent
mollusks in Austria are
Collections of
Aemilian Edlauer, Walter Klemm (NHMW)
Collections of Friedrich Mahler
(Stift Kremsmünster)
Collections of
Peter Sperling
(Haus der Natur)
Collections of Aemilian Edlauer, Walter Klemm (NHMW)
Collections of Friedrich Mahler (Stift Kremsmünster)
Collections of Peter Sperling (Haus der Natur)
Project
As part of the OSCA initiative, work was carried out across institutions at the Haus der Natur, OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, the University of Vienna, the Tyrolean State Museum, inatura, the Carinthian State Museum, and the Natural History Museum Vienna on the digital cataloging of the specimen collections.
In this process, the collections are to be made accessible on the basis of uniform content and technical standards.
This digital documentation is based on the MIDS levels (Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen) developed as part of DiSSCo.
Objective
The aim is to increase the MIDS level for as many collection objects as possible, to make the collections usable as research infrastructure, to publish the data, and to digitally (photographically) document important series of evidence.
Another goal of the initial phase of this project is to create a meta-catalog of other malacological collections in Austria that are housed at other institutions.
TEAM
products
Digital cataloguing of malacological collections in Austria
Creation of a meta-catalog of other collections in Austria (scope, taxonomic and geographical frame of reference, degree of cataloging, accessibility, contact persons).
Workflow for the digitization of mollusks at the Natural History Museum Vienna
Natural Science Collections
document the development and current state
of life and the Earth.
NEWS
OSCA publication
Open Scientific Collections Austria (OSCA)—from concept to workflows Neue OSCA Publikation Korth F, Rainer H, Bara C-D, Begic...
press conference 11.09.2025
Wien (OTS) - Bei der Pressekonferenz zum Thema „Österreichs Naturwissenschaften 2.0: Digital- Innovativ – Europäisch“ im...
GeoSphere Austria joins OSCA
Aus der paläontologischen Sammlung der GeoSphere Austria: Bivalvia (Muscheln) von Eggenburg in Niederösterreich aus dem Miozän,...