Digitalización de la Colección Biológica de la Universidad del Mar campus Puerto Escondido

The simplest way to know a country's natural resources is by creating biological collections (CB). These collections deposit, identify and store a number specimens of different species under special conditions that guarantee their integrity over time. In addition to supporting higher-level learning processes, an still emerging potential is to serve as environmental education tools and awareness-raising processes towards a wider audience. With technological advances over the past decades, the modernization of CB has basically required their transformation from analogue information to digitization, implementing even the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as the incorporation of web 2.0. This paper presents the process of transition from the Laboratorio de Colecciones Biológicas (LCB) of the Universidad del Mar campus Puerto Escondido (UMAR-CPE) to digitization and use of ICT.