There's an awesome new project called Zoosphere <http://www.zoosphere.net> that is taking high-resolution images of biological specimens and putting them online. This seems to be a project of the Berlin Natural History Museum, which is digitizing its insect collections, though I'm not entirely sure whether other museums are involved -- there are a number of logos at the bottom of the project website, but they may just be advisors/financial sponsors/etc. The images at Zoosphere include photos of type specimens and are pretty awesome. NYT coverage here <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/science/putting-museums-samples-of-life-on-the-internet.html>. It appears that the images posted so far are CC-0, which is great.
I'm not sure exactly how Wikipedia/Commons could be involved in this besides scraping the content they upload and potentially encouraging them to continue using free licensing, but it might make sense to have a German Wikimedian contact them. Does anyone have German contacts that could be useful here?
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