Welcome to the NCD toolkit

The Natural Collections Description (NCD) is a data standard for describing collections of natural history materials at the collection level. The standard covers all types of collections of natural history material; specimens, original artwork, photographs, archives, published material or a mixture. NCD enables the aggregation of collections descriptions from many sources and facilitates resource discovery - particularly for collections that do not have a Web presence. This toolkit is used to store descriptions of collections and institutions confirming to the NCD standard.

Please log in into the NCD toolkit and select an option from the menu at the left to add, update or delete records.