https://phys.org/news/2018-05-group-digital-tool-documenting-life.html

As of 2018, 500-plus collections in 38 countries use the Specify database platform, which was developed at the institute, and where the Specify team is headquartered today. Indeed, a large slice of the world's scientific catalog of biodiversity specimens is managed with Specify software.

"There are billions of animals and plants in the world's collections, and each specimen documents an occurrence of a particular species at a particular time and place," said Beach. "The original reason these collections were made was to identify, name and classify new species. Today, with data from the same specimens, we can create historical maps about species distribution, current day ranges and future projections of where species are likely to survive given climate change and other man-made environmental disturbances."