Article: International Co-Operation in the Curation of Type Collections - an Arctic Example

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been the subject of multinational research interest for over 150 years. The lack of centralized information on the location of resultant palaeontological type material from the area is a serious hindrance to modern studies, and this (admittedly extreme) example suggests that effective documentation of the location of type material is a more important issue than centralization of collections.