The SPNHC wiki serves as a resource for information, practices, and procedures relating to the management and preservation of natural history collections. Use the buttons below to browse thematic categories and topic pages and the search bar at the top of the page to search on keywords. Additional SPNHC resources can be found on the SPNHC YouTube Channel, including recorded session talks from past SPNHC meetings.
The Best Practices Committee invites SPNHC professionals to add wiki content to improve community knowledge around collections care and best practices. To propose wiki content, use the button below to view guidelines and fill out an article submission form to be reviewed by the committee.
Please direct additional questions or content requests to the Best Practices Committee co-chairs at bpchairs@spnhc.org.
Wiki Topics
Use the links below to navigate to landing pages on the following wiki topics grouped by theme. Landing pages contain a full listing of relevant wiki pages contributed by our community.
Collections Management and Operations
- Collections Care and Maintenance
- Integrated Pest Management & Biocides
- Policies and Procedures
- Storage Conditions
- Transactions (Accessions, Loans, etc.)
- Archaeology and Ethnography
- Archives and Special Collections
- Botany
- Cryogenic
- Fluids
- Geology and Paleontology
- Zoology
- Conservation Practices
- Field Collecting
- Object Curation and Rehousing
- Specimen Preparation
- Databasing
- Imaging
- Access and Benefit Sharing (Nagoya/CBD)
- National Laws and Regulations
- Permitting
- Shipping and Transporting Specimens
- Conferences, Proceedings, and Posters
- Resources
- Training
Complete List of Wiki Pages
- 3d Imaging
- Access and Benefit-Sharing (Nagoya Protocol and the CBD)
- Accession of Specimens
- Adhesives
- Amber Ethics and Guidelines
- Archives and Special Collections
- Arsenic Testing
- Best Practicies
- Biocides
- Biodiversity Crisis Response and Conservation Resources
- Botany Specimen Preparation
- Collecting Techniques
- Collection Theft and Security Monitoring
- Continuity of Operations
- Core Compentencies
- Data Aggregation Overview from Digitization Workshop ASIH 2016
- Databasing Overview from Digitization Workshop ASIH 2016
- Digital Imaging
- Digitization
- Digitization Workshop ASIH 2016
- Disaster Planning
- Entomology Collection Curation
- Environmental Specifications and Sustainability
- Euthanasia
- Field Collection
- Field Notes
- Field Preparation
- Fire Safety and Suppression
- Fluid Collection Imaging
- Fluid Collection Monitoring
- Fluid Collections
- Food Management
- Fossil Collecting Code of Conduct
- Genetic Resources
- Geological Collection Curation
- Herpetology Collection Curation
- Herpetology Specimen Preparation
- Ichthyology Collection Curation
- Ichthyology Specimen Preparation
- IDEA Resources
- Imaging in the Field
- Importance of Collections
- Invertebrate Paleontology Curation
- Invertebrate Zoology Collection Curation
- Labeling Natural History Collections
- Loans
- Mammal Specimen Preparation
- Mercury
- Microscope Slide Curation
- Microtomography (microCT)
- Museum Techniques Skillshare
- Numbering Natural History Collections
- Ornithology Specimen Preparation
- Paper Conservation
- Permitting
- Persistent Identifiers
- Posters
- Preparation
- Rehousing Materials
- Reopening Collections
- Salvage Permits
- Scientific Collecting Licenses
- Shipping and Handling of Dangerous Goods
- Shipping Collections
- Shipping Large Fossils
- Shipping Small Fossils
- Skeleton Preparation
- Software Resources
- SPNHC Annual Meetings
- Storage Materials: Plastics
- Supplies and Vendors
- Taxidermy and Skins
- Taxonomic Resources
- Threatened and Orphaned Collections
- Tissue Sample Collection
- Training Personnel
- USFWS Federal Migratory Bird Special Purpose Salvage Permits
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