Natural History Museum reaches landmark of five million specimens available online as report values economic benefit of digitising the collection to be more than £2 billion | Natural History Museum
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Summary:
"Over five million specimens – around six percent of the Natural History Museum’s collection –have now been digitised and released onto the Museum’s Data Portal where they can be freely accessed globally.
- The Natural History Museum has digitised its five millionth specimen
- To date there have been 30 billion downloads of these data which are freely available online
- Societal benefits of digitising natural history collections includes global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration and beyond
- A new economic report estimates the value of research enabled by digitisation of natural history collections to be in excess of £2 billion..."