Description
The Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MIZ PAS) hosts the largest zoological collection in Poland. The institution provides access to over 7,000,000 specimens, including 50,000 types, that have been collected since the 19th century in ecosystems around the World (e.g., Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Poland, Peru, Siberia, Korea, Vietnam). Particularly diverse holdings concern groups such as birds, mollusks, and arachnids due to the activity of several prominent Polish specialists such as Benedykt Dybowski, Jan Sztolcman, Władysław Taczanowski, Szymon Tenenbaum, and many others. The present dataset contains information acquired in recent digitization efforts and represents the taxonomic and geographic diversity of MIZ PAS collections.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 313,488 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Iwan D, Mierzwa-Szymkowiak D, Kamiński M (2024). MIZ PAS Zoological Collections. Version 1.3. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.gbif.pl:8080/resource?r=imbio-mizpan-zoological-collections&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences (MIIZ PAN). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b8c97ae9-e444-48d8-8705-198d8c1e6fdd. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences (MIIZ PAN) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.
Keywords
Occurrence; KSIB; Digital Poland: IMBIO Project; Polish Biodiversity Information Network; Natural History Collection; Animals; Birds; Beetles; Insects; Invertebrates; Vertebrates; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Worldwide
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Order | Coleoptera |
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No Description available
| Phylum | Mollusca |
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No Description available
| Class | Arachnida |
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No Description available
| Class | Collembola |
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No Description available
| Subphylum | Vertebrata |
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No Description available
| Class | Pisces |
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No Description available
| Order | Orthoptera |
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Project Data
The dataset resulted from the digitization project IMBIO, supported by the Operational Programme Digital Poland in 2020-2023. The IMBIO project is the most extensive Polish enterprise of natural data digitization, with respect to its range, complexity and volume of the processed content. There is 18 participant institutions with the University of Warsaw as a leader. The project delivered 9.5 million of occurrence records, c.a. 2 million of which are based on specimens deposited in collections, and the remaining data derived from other types of scientific sources: card files, legacy materials and bibliography, publicly unavailable older databases. Integration of these resources has made them accessible and searchable. The access platform is the new version of the Biodiversity Map portal (BioMap, https://portal.biomap.pl), while externally the resources are published via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
| Title | Integration and Mobilization of Data about Biotic Diversity of Eukaryota in Resources of Polish Scientific Institutions (IMBIO) |
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| Identifier | IMBIO |
| Funding | Project ID: POPC.02.03.01-00-0081/19. The funding source: the Operational Programme Digital Poland 2014-2020, category: 2.3.1 Digital access to public sector information from administrative sources and scientific resources (type II: Digital access to scientific resources). |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | b8c97ae9-e444-48d8-8705-198d8c1e6fdd |
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| http://ipt.gbif.pl:8080/resource?r=imbio-mizpan-zoological-collections |