New Web Interface for Herbarium Databases at Florida State Univ. and Tall Timbers Research Station |
| Announcing a new interface for the specimen databases of Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and Tall Timbers Research Station's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium (http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/). The Web site serves data and images for ca. 60,000 of FSU's ca. 205,000 specimens and nearly all (10,500) of Tall Timbers' specimens. These specimens document diversity in the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, one of North America's biotic hotspots, as well as elsewhere (especially the Neotropics). The new functionality allows new types of searches and results. The search interface is also more convenient, with auto-fill of several fields (e.g., common name). Learn more... |
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The mission of the United States Virtual Herbarium (USVH) is to provide, using digital technologies, integrated access to all the plant specimen information in the museums and herbaria of the United States of America and, by so doing, better inform scientific research in areas of national and global significance, promote adoption of internationally recognized biological data management standards, and encourage interest in plant diversity.
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In June, 2011 Mary Barkworth sent a survey out to the 602 US herbaria listed in Index Herbariorum. In it she asked for current information on, among a few other things, the size of the collection and its progress in digitization. Read more...
The purpose of the survey is to find out how many active herbaria there are in the US, their size, and their progress in databasing and imaging their specimens. As of June 17, about 110 replies had been received.