The NAHPU project is a collaborative initiative to develop a cross-platform digital catalog app and supporting software suites to digitize natural history collections and deliver data insights at the point of collection. We aim to accelerate biodiversity research and provide digital tools to strengthen the natural history collection's role as an essential resource for evolutionary studies, conservation management, and disease surveillance. Our plans:
Short-term:
- Enables natural history museums to streamline data collection from the field to museum databases, eliminating errors from secondary data entry associated with conventional paper catalogs.
- Simplify managing complex fieldwork records, including voucher specimens, associated specimen parts, ecological data, collecting efforts, field journals, and derivative media (photographs, audio, and video).
Long-term:
- Real-time analytics, utilizing both conventional and advanced machine-learning methods.
- Comprehensive data collection, integration, and management, including genomic and 2D/3D phenomic integration.
- Mammalogy 🐿️
- Ornithology 🦅
- Herpetology 🐍
- Ichthyology (in development) 🐠
- Paleontology (in development) 🦣
- Entomology (in development) 🦋
- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
- The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH)
- The Human-Augmented and Analytics Group (HAAG) at Georgia Tech
- The Indonesian Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
- The LSU Museum of Natural Science (LSUMNS)
- The SAM Noble Museum of Natural History (SNMNH)
- The U.S National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
- The University of Melbourne (Unimelb)
- The National Science Foundation (DEB-1754393 and DEB-2244754)
- The Alfred L. Gardner and Mark S. Hafner Mammalogy Fund
- The Human-Augmented Analytics Group provides logistical support for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Various other funding sources may have supported this project through the work of the contributors
The views, findings, and conclusions expressed in this project are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the National Science Foundation, the Alfred L. Gardner and Mark S. Hafner Mammalogy Fund, the Human-Augmented Analytics Group, or any other supporting bodies.