The Yale Peabody Museum supports the digitization, mobilization, and analysis of collections data for research and education at the Museum, across the Yale community, and worldwide through the coordinated efforts of its Division of Informatics, Computer Systems Office, and Digital Media operations.
The Yale Peabody Museum, among the oldest, largest, and most active university natural history museums in the world, has since 1986 been innovating in the use of biodiversity informatics tools. The Peabody’s data scientists facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and synthesize biodiversity information for research and education in projects that contribute to national and international initiatives. The Peabody’s information science and technology projects leverage digital materials produced by the Museum’s curatorial divisions and the research programs of Yale faculty curators and their students and colleagues. Efforts have focused on specimen and object metadata and digital assets for digitization projects over the past three decades. Support for these projects is supplemented by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Council on Library and Information Resources, among others.
The Peabody’s information science staff also collaborate on digital asset management projects for other areas of the Museum and participate in Yale cross-collections discovery initiatives toward the overall goal of digitizing and making accessible Peabody’s archival collections, scientific publications, exhibitions, and educational materials.
