The Use of Large Natural History Datasets to Respond to Current Scientific and Societal Issues

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Natural history collections represent extraordinarily rich and diverse sets of objects. These collections also correspond to colossal datasets that allow us to respond to extremely varied scientific and societal issues. This chapter presents facets of data reuse from natural history collections. It presents some suggestions to optimize the uses of past data and ensure that data from contemporary studies can be reused in the future. Data are often made available through data access portals such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), consortia of specialists in different taxonomic groups or the publication of data papers, articles that enable the description and publication of data from a study or a natural history collection. The different data publishing institutions share their different local databases via data access portals, such as GBIF. The role of these portals is to allow the user to retrieve and download all the data needed for their work from a single access point.

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