Missouri Botanical Garden Grant

Organization - Missouri Botanical Garden
Grant Amount - $1,096,655
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) will support the adoption of the Fedora Commons platform by the Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 of the world's largest natural history digital libraries) and the TROPICOS (MBG's institutional repository of botanical data). Outcomes include shared and open access to collective knowledge on biodiversity as well as new opportunities for easy adoption and use within biodiversity information management.


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