Over the latest 200 years,many museums or herbaria throughout the world have acquired large numbers of mounted biological specimens (plants,animals,fossils and etc).Most the specimens have high value in scientific research and cultural research.In recent years,large numbers of displayed these specimens have been changed their original appearance,or removed from display,or sometimes dismantled and placed in longterm storage.Unfortunately,in some times,the specimens have been totally destroyed.The factors which can link the heritages and specimens may include particular person,particular event,particular organization,particular place and/or time,particular taxonomy and artistic appearance etc.Actually,ICOM-NATHIST (The International Council of Museums Committee on Museums and Collections of Natural History) launched a Taxonomy & Cultural Heritage Working Group in 2006 to establish the factors which make the specimens culturally important and to establish their importance to the wider international and scientific community.The project of “The Construction of Platform for the Standard Cleaning,Integration and Sharing with Specimen Resources” (2005-2008) was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),China.It is consisted of 6 platforms,including Chinese Virtual Herbarium for plant specimens,national digital-museum of animal specimens,integrated specimen platform in the universities,national infrastructure of mineral rock and fossil resources,specimen platform in the protected area,resource-sharing platform of polar samples.Currently,there are in total more than 8 million kinds of specimens available from these six platforms (involving about 100 institutes and universities in China).In the late of 2011,the MOST selected 23 of previous sponsored platforms to sponsor again in next several years and the project of digital specimen platform was among them.After several discussion and workshop,this project is entitled as “National Specimen Information Infrastructure” (NSII),which will integrate the existing 6 platforms into one big platform.It will not only focus on the specimen data,but also other related data,such as catalogue,living photos,literature,distributions and other related thematic databases.These works are strongly based on our previous work.We have built several websites focusing on these themes under the support of Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences,such as Species 2000 China Node(about 60,000 species),BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) China Node(more than 10,000 books),EOL(Encyclopedia of Life) China Node,Nature Museum( 2.4 million photos) and Plant Photo in China(1.0 million photos).Therefore,the integrated NSII will be an ecosystem-like information infrastructure,which will provide one-stop biodiversity information service in China.Generally,the biological specimen has the natural attribute and cultural meanings.The most related data includes taxonomy,literatures (especially the old research literatures),color photos,spatial distribution; collect history (person and date).Thanks to the NSII project,we have most of the necessary information for biological specimens.Several thematic databases will be designed and implemented.More heritage information will be extracted from biological specimens,which will reveal the particular event,history,usage and culture from them.As a type of long-term data (most are longer than 100 years),it will give more valuable information for the research on climate change,social or economic change,cultural or biological diversity,environment monitoring and etc.