Collections from Colonial Australia in Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde and the Challenges of Data Accessibility

• Published in: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• Main Authors: Schwarz, Anja, Möhrle, Fiona, von Mering, Sabine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Australia's First Nations; CARE principle; colonial collections; FAIR data; Indigenous knowledge; knowledge transfer; natural history collections; Wikidata; Lowe; First Nations
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8312673; https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111980

German-speaking naturalists working in southeastern Australia in the mid-19th century relied heavily on the expertise of First Nations intermediaries who acted as guides, collectors, traders and translators (Clarke 2008, Olsen and Russell 2019). Many of these naturalists went to Australia because of...