Presented by Fedor Alexander Steeman, The Natural History Museum, Denmark (NHMD) in Copenhagen, as part of the Specify Institutional Implementation Series.
The Natural History Museum, Denmark (NHMD) in Copenhagen was formally established in 2004 through the organizational merger of four historically significant institutions: the Zoological Museum, the Geological Museum, the Botanical Museum, and the Botanical Garden affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. A decade later, the NHMD joined forces with other natural history institutions in a national consortium to adopt Specify as their collections management system and started the process of data migration. This process is still ongoing for the NHMD in Copenhagen as more and more collections are added to the fold. In 2021, the broader Danish project called DaSSCo, a node of the European DiSSCo network, was launched and started the process of mass digitization of the largest collections still not yet digitally registered. Over the course of the years, these different constellations led to various decisions on the implementation and roll out of our Specify installations.