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Starting now at #SharingDataBetter – our keynote 'Data and the Whale: Why natural history museums matter for the crises of the 21st century'

🗣️ Dr Nick Pyenson (@PyensonLab), Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals, National Museum of Natural History (@NMNH), Smithsonian Institution

‘We are living in the golden age of whale science’ – @PyensonLab @NMNH #SharingDataBetter

‘The result is a digital dataset that captures a moment in time’ – @PyensonLab @NMNH #SharingDataBetter

‘People come to museums to see the real thing. They see themselves as stewards of collections. We can shift from collection stewardship and move towards data stewardship. The capture of their context in space and time’ – @PyensonLab @NMNH #SharingDataBetter

‘Museums are trusted and trustworthy organisations – I really do think of natural history museums as data institutions: 72 collections worldwide, 1.1bn specimens but only 16% digitised’ – @PyensonLab @NMNH #SharingDataBetter