https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/collections/ Recent content in Collections on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-22-biodiversity-specimen-platforms-specify7-symbiota-arctos/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-22-biodiversity-specimen-platforms-specify7-symbiota-arctos/ <p>A natural history collection with two million specimens and one curator is not an unusual situation — it is the normal situation. Herbaria, insect collections, fossil repositories and tissue banks across universities and museums are digitising legacy labels under grant deadlines, and they are discovering that the bottleneck was never the scanner. It is the database: whether the collection management platform can model taxonomy, stratigraphy, tissues and field notes without a bespoke development project, and whether it can publish to global aggregators without a second copy of the data living in a spreadsheet.</p>