NYSM Collection Databases
At the New York State Museum, staff have been digitizing the museum’s collections as they continue to grow. In order to help make the collections more accessible to researchers, portions of the museum’s database have been shared online with national and international data aggregators. These data can be accessed by following the links below. If data pertaining to a specific inquiry cannot be found at any of the linked aggregators, contact the collection manager of the department of interest for more information.
Select from the following areas to view associated NYSM database records available online:
ALGAE
NYSM Algae records via Macroalgal Herbarium Portal
https://macroalgae.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=49
BRYOPHYTES
NYSM Bryophyte records via Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria:
https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=70.
*Approximately 40% of the Bryophyte Herbarium is currently digitized.
LICHEN
NYSM Lichen records via Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria Portal:
https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=81
*Approximately 60% of the Lichen Herbarium is currently digitized.
MYCOLOGY
NYSM Mycology Database
This database includes all of the new species and varieties described by Charles Peck and Homer House. Also included are a number of unpublished herbarium names, new names, invalidly published names, and new species described by other mycologists. Separate entries exist for each taxon as well as for every individually packeted collection, for example: isotypes, syntypes, and paratypes. This listing is as complete as the authors of the database can make it at the present time.
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/biology/botany-mycology/collections/online-collection
NYSM Mycology records via Mycology MycoPortal:
https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=38
VASCULAR PLANTS
NYSM Vascular Plants records via Great Lakes Invasives Network Portal
*This represents a small portion of the Vascular Plant Herbarium records.
http://greatlakesinvasives.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=11
NYSM Arthropod Types:
There are 193 holotypes, 13 lectotypes, 240 syntypes, 45 allotypes, 501 paratypes, and 19 paralectotypes. The "Catalogue of the Types in the New York State Museum Insect Collection (Including Acarina)", New York State Museum Bulletin 434, is available for download:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/nysm-arthropodtypecollection.pdf (PDF 3 MB)
NYSM Entomology records via Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF):
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e7fa4cc1-52a1-4859-b876-bcb45e9ca809
NYSM Entomology records via the Symbiota Collection of Arthropods Network (SCAN):
https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=2…
NYSM Virtual Core Library
The Virtual Core Library provides a comprehensive core inventory and some core images.
https://esogis.nysm.nysed.gov/Cores_TOC.cfm
Empire State Organized Geologic Information System (ESOGIS)
The Empire State Organized Geologic Information System (ESOGIS) is a complete resource for deep well information in the state of New York. In addition to allowing you to query and view data (logs, permits, drilling reports, etc.) for all of New York's 47,000+ deep wells, it provides easy access to the museum’s bedrock core and cuttings collection catalogue, digital maps, published reports, and other related information.
https://esogis.nysm.nysed.gov/
NYSGS and Open File Data Page via National Geologic Map Database
NYSM Mammalogy records via Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF):
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/835ff8be-ea5c-45e4-b3f3-126852ac56fe
NYSM Mammalogy records via VertNet:
http://portal.vertnet.org/search?q=gbifdatasetid:835ff8be-ea5c-45e4-b3f…
NYSM Ornithology records via Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF):
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5345b34d-82a4-44b7-9d82-5109df1ca243(link is external)
NYSM Ornithology records via VertNet:
http://portal.vertnet.org/search?q=gbifdatasetid:5345b34d-82a4-44b7-9d8…
External Database Portals
Records from NYSM databases appear on the following online portals:
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
An international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
NYSM page:
https://www.gbif.org/publisher/baa8ccb1-8d9d-4940-93a6-2241c8a04ba5
VertNet:
This NSF-funded collaborative project helps people discover, capture, and publish biodiversity data. It is also the core of a collaboration between hundreds of biocollections that contribute biodiversity data and work together to improve it.
NYSM page:
http://portal.vertnet.org/p/new-york-state-museum
iDigBio
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.
https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/82bcf2f2-b2d6-45a5-b0ca-d70d8…
Bionomia
Bionomia tracks individual researchers and the specimens they have collected and/or identified and the impact they have had on natural history collections. It also tracks the impact that a museum or institution has had on the field of natural history. At Bionomia, past and present collectors and researchers from the New York State Museum can be found as well as the impact they had on their field.
https://bionomia.net/organization/Q3875588
