The NAHPU project is a collaborative effort to develop a cross-platform digital catalog app and supporting software suites to digitize natural history collections right at the point of collection.
Short-term goals:
- 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, and derivative media (photographs, audio, and video).
Long-term goals:
An integrated app suite for field data collection and mobilization with real-time analytics, utilizing both conventional and advanced machine-learning methods.
- Mammals 🐿️
- Birds 🦅
- Herpetofauna 🐍
- Fishes (in development) 🐠
- Paleo Vertebrates (in development) 🦣
- Invertebrates (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
