Laherty, JenniferMotz, Gary2025-09-242025-09-2420171Indiana University Libraries, https://libraries.indiana.edu/ 2Indiana University Center for Biological Research Collections, http://www.iu.edu/~cbrc/ 3Indiana University Herbarium, http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/facilities/herbarium.shtm 4Indiana University Paleontology Collection, http://www.indiana.edu/~palcoll/ 5William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Laboratory, http://www.indiana.edu/~zooarch/home.php 6Sufia, http://sufia.io/ 7Project Hydra, https://projecthydra.org/ 8Fedora 4, https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Repository+Home 9Indiana University Scholarly Data Archive, https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiyi 10Symbiota, http://symbiota.org/ 11Geolocate, http://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate/ 12Darwin Core Metadata Schema, http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/ 13Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, http://dublincore.org/ 14Specify, http://specifyx.specifysoftware.org/ 15RDF Primer 1.1, https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-rdf11-primer-20140624/ 16iDigBio, https://www.idigbio.org/ 17iDigBio Guidelines for Managing Unique Resource Identifiers, https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/videos/slides/iDigBio_URI_recommendation.pdf 18Alex Thompson, iDigBio Chief Cyberinfrastructure Architect. Personal Communication, June 2016. 19Global Biodiversity Information Facility, http://www.gbif.org/ 20WOrld Register of Marine Species, http://marinespecies.org/ 21The Paleobiology Database, http://paleobiodb.org/ 22Consortium of Midwest Herbaria, http://midwestherbaria.org/ 23WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6185In 2013, the Indiana University Libraries (IUL) embarked upon a rich partnership with the IU Center for Biological Research Collections (CBRC) to provide researchers and lay citizen scientists access to a curated, digital collection of 2D and 3D specimens, as well as critical scholarly data from researchers across the biological sciences at IU. We have implemented a Fedora 4 repository with Sufia 7 built on as a Hydra head to provide the CBRC with an extensible digital repository and well-curated digital archive. Success in this pilot program would facilitate support for the IU Libraries to undergo a major migration of existing digital collections – a migration that would boost digital collections onto the semantic web. Along the way, IUL and CBRC have realized each other’s strengths and eagerly learn new protocols and methods for curating and preserving these institution-specific unique collections. Fundamentally, the desired outcome is to make the items in the CBRC abundantly available with the anticipation that their use will generate new discoveries while curating and preserving them for enhancement and future use. Furthermore, it is in this spirit of collaboration and a commitment to open technologies that we are aiming to extend these services more broadly to the entire IU community for digital scholarship and research. IUL regularly participates in community-based open source repository infrastructure engineering and global preservation networks. IUL’s work with the CBRC is a natural extension of these commitments which benefit the library and informatics fields, both within IU and beyond.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttps://2016.ifla.org/programme/satellite-meetingsopen accessSemantic webbiological research collectionsresearch librariesdigital collections servicesdata repositories