Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl, GRBio)

GRSciColl is a community-curated, comprehensive clearinghouse of information about object-based scientific collections. GRSciColl serves a registry function for  InstitutionCodes  and  CollectionCodes  (elements of the DarwinCore data standard in biology) that enable publications and databases to point unambiguously to collections and their contents.

Designed to be truly interdisciplinary, GRSciColl includes and accepts data on institutions and collections that span all scientific disciplines including earth and space sciences, anthropology, archaeology, biology, biomedicine, and applied fields such as agriculture, veterinary medicine, and technology.

The main goals of GRSciColl are:

1. To improve access to information about institutions the scientific collections they hold and to facilitate access to the staff members who manage them, and
2. To improve interoperability among databases by providing unique codes and machine-readable identifiers for institutions and collections.