Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a European research infrastructure that digitizes and standardizes all natural science collections and creates access to scientific knowledge throughout Europe.
DiSSCo AT (Distributed System of Scientific Collections Austria) is currently the largest network of natural history museums, botanical gardens, universities and R&D institutions in Austria. The coordination of DiSSCo in Austria is provided by the OSCA consortium (Open Scientific Collections Austria) (LEAD: NHM).
OSCA Konsortium
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
osca@nhm-wien.ac.at
https://osca.science
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Heimo Rainer
Natural History Museum Vienna, DiSSCo NTF
at@dissco.eu
https://www.dissco.eu/at
University of Salzburg
The Herbarium SZU is a curated natural history collection hosting ca. 130.000 vouchers of vascular...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collections of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography comprise a total of about 166.000...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collections of the Botany Department at NHM Vienna are among the most important worldwide....
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Natural History Museum of Vienna owns one of the largest meteorite collections in the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The famous public displays, in five large exhibition halls (I-V), comprise about 15% of the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The gemstone collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna is the most important of its...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The NHM owns one of the largest collections of building and decorative stones in Europa...
Natural History Museum Vienna
X-ray powder diffractometer Bruker D8 ADVANCE, equipped with a CuK(alpha)-ceramic X-ray tube, high-sensitivity LYNXEYE XE-T...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The osteological collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna comprises about 40,000 human skeletal...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Photothek is a historic and contemporary digitally maintained image archive of the Department of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The ore deposit collection of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography is part of the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The rock collection of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography contains over tens of thousands...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The significance of the mineral collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna lies in their...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Hymenoptera collection of the Natural History Museum consists of more than one million specimens,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Diptera collection (mosquitoes and flies, two-winged insects) at the Natural History Museum contains around...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Coleoptera (beetle) collection of the Natural History Museum has just over 6 million dry-mounted...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection "Neuropterida and affiliated collections" of the Natural History Museum comprises a large number...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Mission Statement It is our aim to foster, stimulate, and carry out research and compile...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The pathologic-anatomical collection was founded in 1796 by Johann Peter Frank (1745−1821), director of the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Somatological Collection is part of the collections of the Anthropological Department of the Natural...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Casts and reconstructions of early populations and hominins have always been and still are part...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Digital x-ray-system completely shielded with high resolution detector system for specimen examination up to the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
With ca. 20,000 lots and 2,000 type series, the myriapod collection of the Naturalhistory Museum...
Natural History Museum Vienna
With more than 5.7 million specimens the collection of the Geological-Paleontological Department is an archive...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The origin of the paleobotanical collection dates back to the 18th century. The core of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The micropaleontological collection of the Geological-Paleontological Department contains numerous microfossils from all over the world....
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection „Mesozoic Invertebrates“ contains about 300.000 objects from all over the world covering a...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Palaeozoic collection of the Department of Geology & Palaeontology of the NHM contains fossil...
Natural History Museum Vienna
With more than 4,500.000 objects, the collection “Cenozoic Invertebrates“ is the largest collection of the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The herbarium of phanerogams at the Department of Botany at NHM Vienna houses an estimated...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection of cryptogams at the NHM Vienna, Department of Botany archives an estimated 1.5-2...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The fruit and seed collection at NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains some 30000 dried...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The wood collection of the NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains about 6500 wood samples...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The spirit collection at NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains about 2000 samples of higher...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The beginnings of the Collection Mollusca date back to the 18th century. Franz Stephan of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection Evertebrata varia of the Natural History Museum Vienna includes most invertebrate groups not...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection Crustacea (crustacean) of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW) houses ~ 30,000 inventoried...
Natural History Museum Vienna
500.000 objects are available in the fossil vertebrate collection of the NHMW. The NHMW houses...
Natural History Museum Vienna
In addition to the arachnids (spiders, scorpions, mites, harvestmen, pseudoscorpions, whip spiders, whip scorpions, etc.),...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Entomology deals with the study of insects. The Natural History Museum Vienna houses one of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The 3. Zoological Department encompasses the invertebrate collections with the exception of insects in the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Lepidoptera collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna houses one of the largest...
Natural History Museum Vienna
In 1992 the Hemiptera Collection was split off from a large collection of heterogeneous insect...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The 'First Zoological Department (Vertebrates)', owing to its scientific collections – the Mammal, the Bird,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The comparative scientific collection comprises about 210,000 objects the majority (more than 200,000) are preserved...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Currently, the mammal collection comprises more than 100,000 specimens. Its annual increment amounts to around...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Bird Collection at the NHM dates back to 1793 and represents the only scientific...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The main taxidermy laboratory of the 1st Zoological Department is manufacturing and renovating all dry...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Fish Collection of the NHM Vienna belongs, based on its historical value, to the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Archaeological-Zoological collection is an interdisciplinary institution combining aspects of zoology and prehistoric/early history livestock...