History

Trezorix was founded in the year 2000 by some parties who were involved in the realisation of a series of very successful educational exhibition games and web applications for "the new Naturalis", a modern version of the old Dutch National Natural History Museum, which was opened in 1998 in Leiden, The Netherlands. Naturalis was in fact one of the initiators of the founding of Trezorix. The primary aim of the new company was to develop and provide a web-based infrastructure which could be used by Naturalis and other interested knowledge institutions to realise their ambition as modern and innovative knowledge providers and network organisations.

From this background Trezorix has grown into a company specialized in connecting heterogeneous resources into coherent knowledge networks, and in providing optimal findability of the information in these networks with the use metadata linked via reference structures. To these ends Trezorix has been and is involved - both as initiator and as participant - in numerous projects, working closely together with museums, libraries, ministries, universities and fellow companies.

At present the circle of Trezorix' clients is wider than the natural history institutions and various museums which where dominant in the client profile of the founding days. But up tp to this day Trezorix and Naturalis work together in conceptualizing and developing new applications that make it possible for the museum and its partners - such as larger and smaller nature organizations, scientific institutions and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality - to distinguish themselves as innovative knowledge institutions, and to bundle their knowledge into a "knowledge cluster" on nature, biodiversity and wildlife.