Natural History Museum Data Portal

The Museum is committed to open access and open science, and has launched the Data Portal to make its research and collections datasets available online. It allows anyone to explore, download and reuse the data for their own research. Our natural history collection is one of the most important in the world, documenting 4.5 billion years of life, the Earth and the solar system. Almost all animal, plant, mineral and fossil groups are represented. These datasets will increase exponentially. Under the Museum's ambitious digital collections programme we aim to have 20 million specimens digitised in the next five years.

该博物馆致力于开放获取与开放科学，并已推出数据门户，以在线方式提供其研究及藏品数据集。该平台允许任何用户进行数据探索、下载及为个人研究目的而重用数据。我们的自然历史藏品堪称世界之最，记录了45亿年的生命、地球及太阳系的变迁。几乎所有的动物、植物、矿物和化石类群均有所涵盖。这些数据集将呈指数级增长。在博物馆雄心勃勃的数字藏品计划下，我们旨在未来五年内将2000万件标本进行数字化。