The dataset of the Global Collections survey of natural history collections

Description

From 2016 to 2018, we surveyed the world’s largest natural history museum collections to begin mapping this globally distributed scientific infrastructure. The resulting dataset includes 73 institutions across the globe. It has: Basic institution data for the 73 contributing institutions, including estimated total collection sizes, geographic locations (to the city) and latitude/longitude, and Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers where available. Resourcing information, covering the numbers of research, collections and volunteer staff in each institution. Indicators of the presence and size of collections within each institution broken down into a grid of 19 collection disciplines and 16 geographic regions. Measures of the depth and breadth of individual researcher experience across the same disciplines and geographic regions. This dataset contains the data (raw and processed) collected for the survey, and specifications for the schema used to store the data. It includes: A diagram of the MySQL database schema. A SQL dump of the MySQL database schema, excluding the data. A SQL dump of the MySQL database schema with all data. This may be imported into an instance…

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Files (6)

• SQLglobal_collections_schema_with_data.sql1.1 MB
• SQLglobal_collections_schema.sql6.3 kB
• PDFglobal_collections_schema_diagram.pdf52 kB
• ZIPglobal_collections_view_csvs.zip237 kB
• TXTglobal_collections_size_categories.txt453 byte
• ZIPglobal_collections_table_csvs.zip216 kB

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