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Natural History Museum Data Portal

Abbreviation:NHM Data Portal

General Information

The British natural history collection is one of the most important in the world, documenting 4.5 billion years of life, the Earth and the solar system. Almost all animal, plant, mineral and fossil groups are represented. The portal's main dataset consists of specimens from the Museum's collection database, with over 4 million records from the Museum’s Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Botany, Entomology and Zoology collections.

Homepage https://data.nhm.ac.uk/

Countries that developed this resource United Kingdom

Taxonomic range

All

Subjects

Awaiting DOI assignment.

Record added: Aug. 19, 2019, 3:55 p.m.
Record updated: Jan. 30, 2020, 9:21 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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Support

General

contact form	Contact form
support email	Data Portal contact
online documentation	Github of source code

Additional Information

Contact

Ben Scott ORCID

Tools

No tools defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Applies to: Database software

GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0

Data Access

Search filter tool	https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset
Download	https://data.nhm.ac.uk/about/download

REST Web Services

CKAN API

https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html

Publications

The Natural History Museum Data Portal.

Scott B,Baker E,Woodburn M,Vincent S,Hardy H,Smith VS
Database (Oxford) 2019

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

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Maintains

Natural History Museum, London, UK (Company) Lead

Natural History Museum Data Portal

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