The 2005–2006 DIGIT Seed Money award was made to a consortium led by Dr David Wake of the University of California at Berkeley, to expand the existing HerpNET database, which was originally a US National Science Foundation project for North America, to the global level. HerpNET is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data that can be used in studying the basis for recent amphibian population declines.

The DIGIT seed money award was used to add seven additional amphibian collections to the existing network:

• Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS)
• Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Hawaii, USA (BPBM)
• Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (CIB)
• Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, Switzerland (MHNG)
• Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore (RM)
• Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (RMCA)
• Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS)
• Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia (ZIN).

The project included training in digitisation and geo-referencing, the installation of DiGIR servers and registration with the GBIF network for the partner institutions.