Bring the specimens to life! Digitalization of animal and plant specimens, safeguarding the eternal memories of nature
In museum display cases and specimen rooms of research institutions, animal and plant specimens are quietly exhibited.
They are slices of time, recording the evolutionary trajectory of life on Earth; they are codes of nature, carrying precious information on biodiversity.
However, constrained by environment and storage conditions, traditional specimens are not only difficult to widely share, but the rich data they contain is also hard to fully exploit…