NHM Data Portal

(mostly automated) updates from the dev team behind @NHM_London's Data Portal. For regular news about digitisation work, please follow @NHM_Digitise.

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

For more information about integrated search, have a look at our new help page https://t.co/kS1bPSQHcZ. In the new help section you'll also find updated API documentation too https://t.co/i76YLdb6eJ.

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

Sir Hans Sloane's collection formed the basis of the Museum as well as the British Museum and the British Library.

However, there is a complex history behind Sloane's collection, which was financed in part by profits from transatlantic slavery
#BlackHistoryMonth #HansSloane

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

@PariesOsei @NHM_Science @NHM_Botany Sloane Vegetable Substances have been digitised and released online. We hope more researchers can use this unique data source containing plants over 300 years old to shed light on the complex history of natural history collections. https://t.co/6tT6zV3RAD

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 9th May 2023.

We've made a couple of small tweaks this week.
👉 https://t.co/fP2v1H8D2M

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Images.

For the past several weeks, all the images from many of our datasets (notably, Collection Specimens and Index Lots) have been unavailable.
👉 https://t.co/y4SlTVhL10

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 3rd April 2023.

This week's several-in-one release post extravaganza covers some UI changes we've made in the past few weeks.
👉 https://t.co/h6oCsimxuy

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

@oscand_martinez I don't believe we have any shapefiles on the Portal for BII - these are all the datasets we have: https://t.co/Gc2ciG3WQN
You might have some luck contacting the curators of these datasets if none of the available files are what you need!

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 6th March 2023.

We've made a couple of small (but hopefully very useful) updates to the search interface based on some user feedback.
👉 https://t.co/D0nwZ30NG6

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 20th Feb 2023.

One little search feature for you this week (plus a quick techy change for all extensions, if that's the kind of thing that interests you).
👉 https://t.co/0yxjQkseA6

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 6th Feb 2023.

This might be our last short and entirely unhelpful summary posted to Twitter. How sad.
👉 https://t.co/n5zKSueEB2

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Downloads!

This week we're releasing a long-awaited update: we've completely rewritten our download system.
👉 https://t.co/PMHHM1aFmi

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

MAINTENANCE: we're doing some major upgrades tomorrow (Tues 31st), so the Portal will be down for a while between 9AM and 11AM 🔧

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

Today is our final day of #festivespecimens for the 12 Days of Christmas and we have just received the best Christmas present reaching 2 million insects on @NHM_Data. Enjoy our Christmas gift featuring some of our favourite things (insects)

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 12th December 2022.
👉 https://t.co/GAjhbSL63b

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#changelog Standardisation and weekly release, 7th December 2022.

In the past few weeks, we've completed a major tidy up of the Data Portal's codebase, plus implemented a new feature for viewing images.
👉 https://t.co/iMIcuVxVF9

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

It's Portal maintenance time on Monday 7th Nov! The Portal will be offline for a short while (hopefully) sometime between 8AM and 10AM UTC.

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

In the spirit of #Batweek and #Halloween, take a look at some of our digitised bat specimens on the Data Portal @NHM_Data https://t.co/OtD9qMAXbU #OAWeek #OAWeek22

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#changelog Weekly release, 24th October 2022.

Just the one small change this week; our Collection specimens and Index lots are now displayed first in the dataset list if you're using the default sort.
👉 https://t.co/CGRBTbHsyu

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

We have digitised > 5.3 mil specimens. These #OpenAccess records have had 33 bn downloads via 580,000 download events. More than 2160 Scientific papers cite our data on areas from human health to food security and evolution #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek https://t.co/vUQdJL7Kiv

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#changelog Weekly release, 17th October 2022.

We've removed some bugs and added some bats this week. It's so difficult to know what to write for this opening sentence.
👉 https://t.co/ancK5Y4CII

[NHM Data Portal @NHM_Data]

#changelog Weekly release, 10th October 2022.

Fresh fixes!
👉 https://t.co/MXu1X775Fp