"Project PAMEV" The creation of a Virtual Museum

Abstract

The PAMEV project "Paleontología de la Macaronesa Espacio Virtual" is a Biblioteca Universitaria de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) initiative, with the economical support of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España. PAMEV is aimed to the digitalization and virtualization of the paleontological collection from Azores, Madeira, Canarias and Cape Verde Archipelagos belonging to the Laboratorio de Paleontología, research group BIOCON of the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The final objective of this tool is the is the development of an integrated space, for the promotion of the collections of the ULPGC in the fields of the zoology, botany, geology, palaeontology, ecology, oceanography and climatic change from The Canaries and other subtropical Atlantic Archipelago.