COMPUTERIZATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC FUND: MODERN OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT STAGE OF THE SKRYABIN MUSEUM OF HELMINTHOLOGY VNIIP – FSC VIEV

Abstract

The modern stage of scientific research and public awareness activities of the Skryabin Museum of Helminthology of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV is associated with the creation and implementation in daily practice of a number of the original computer developments related to recording and cataloging biological items, and storage of information materials. The implemented computer projects radically reformed and intensified the Museum’s work, the implementation of which earlier required extensive labor resources, or it was technologically problematic. In 2018–2019, based on implemented computer projects, a methodology was developed for the first time in the practice of the Museum of Helminthology, on the basis of which a complete audit and an up-to-date physical inventory of helminthological specimens was organized and carried out in the Scientific Fund of the Museum Collection of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV. For the first time, a system of digital indexation of the modern structural organization of all specimen depositories of the Scientific Fund of the Museum of Helminthology was developed and implemented. When conducting an audit of the Collection items, a digital index was assigned to each inventory number, which indicates that a specimen and its information parameters is bound to a specific, current location in the Museum's depositories. Information content about the audited items of the Scientific Fund was entered into a draft "2017" of the computer directory for specimens of the Museum of Helminthology of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV. Currently, the Scientific Fund of the Collection includes 6686 inventory numbers of the category "microslide", which include 15878 slides representing total and histological specimens of helminths from various taxonomic groups. 13253 inventory numbers are included in the Collection of "wet specimens" with a mark in the computer database, and placed in the depository. The total number of registered items deposited in the Scientific Funds of the Museum of Helminthology is 29131. Computerization of Scientific Funds of the Museum of Helminthology of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV is objectively necessary modern technology tool set that allows you to comprehensively present and analyze the study items of the important research area of parasitology. The computerization of the Museum has significantly expanded the possibilities for the current methodological development and improvement of museum work, both with collector’s biological items and with accompanying information materials.