Open Science Information and Research Infrastructure
Collecting for our Future
OSIRIS takes on the huge challenge of making the large national cultural, technical and natural history collections – including living collections – comprehensively globally accessible for everyone – as a national infrastructure. OSIRIS aims to strategically develop them in their entirety and preserve them as the heritage of mankind.
OSIRIS is unique in the world:
RELEVANT
Natur, Kultur & Technik
A joint initiative of research institutions holding natural, cultural, technological, and life collections, and institutions of data competence.
17
Institutions
Twelve Leibniz and five additional major collection-holding institutions join forces and form the nucleus of a scalable and open infrastructure.
1000+
Experts
Over a thousand co-workers ensure the long-term and sustainable development, preservation and maintenance of the collections united in the OSIRIS consortium.
160 MILLIONEN
Objects
160 Millionen physische Objekte und deren Digitalisate repräsentieren einen großen Teil unserer weltweiten natürlichen, technischen, kulturellen und sozialen Vielfalt.
PUBLIC
Citizen (Community) Science & Open Data
The open and globally guaranteed access to data for everybody involves Citizen Science in a global network of knowledge.
OSIRIS …
MOBILIZES
Digitization
High through-put digitization infrastructure; AI technology; multilayered data; data competence; establishment of inter- and transdisciplinary research.
INTREGRATES
Technology & Sciences
Natural, cultural, technological information; advanced technologies; inter- and transdisciplinary approaches; community science.
FACILITATES
Knowledge & Innovation
Open access to evidence-based information; bio-techno-cultural insights; development of relevant future fields.
SOLVES
Wicked Social Problems
Development of courses of actions for wicked problems like biodiversity-, climate-, as well as cultural-crisis and societal / democratic destabilization.
TRANSFORMS
Societies
Contributions to a sustainable social transformation as a cornerstone of humankinds’ future. Fosters a fair share of knowledge.
EMPOWERS
Societies & Politics
Active contributions to execute goals of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 15, SDG).