Academic Journal
Challenges and lessons learned from digitizing small Brazilian herbaria
| العنوان: | Challenges and lessons learned from digitizing small Brazilian herbaria |
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| المؤلفون: | André Luís de Gasper, Gustavo Heiden, Leonardo M. Versieux, Paula M. Leitman, Rafaela C. Forzza |
| المصدر: | Acta Botânica Brasílica, Vol 35, Iss 4, Pp 689-697 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | Sociedade Botânica do Brasil, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Botany |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | biodiversity data, biological collection, e-taxonomy, exsiccate, plant collection, Botany, QK1-989 |
| الوصف: | ABSTRACT The digital era provides new opportunities for taxonomists, as well as for everyone that studies biodiversity. Many herbaria have been able to digitize their collections, a process that started with the typing of label data, moving more recently towards the digitization of each sample with the simultaneous acquisition of high-resolution images. Here we discuss some of the challenges we faced in digitizing samples and provide a series of suggestions to avoid common mistakes for herbaria that have yet to start the process. We used a professional camera, database management software, and a barcode scanner to digitize the collections of herbaria CRI, ECT, FURB, LUSC, and UFRN. Pre-revision of samples with prior restoration when needed, barcode fixation, and a good database allowed faster digitization of samples. Good database software and the formation of a network among small herbaria accelerated digitization and increased the number of images available of Brazilian biodiversity. Thus far, our joint efforts made 118,000 specimen images available online with the purpose of accelerating botanical research. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1677-941X 0102-3306 |
| Relation: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062021000900689&tlng=en; https://doaj.org/toc/1677-941X |
| DOI: | 10.1590/0102-33062020abb0246 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/366f7a4fc31a45f1b010ddff7b51569d |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.366f7a4fc31a45f1b010ddff7b51569d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 1677941X 01023306 |
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| DOI: | 10.1590/0102-33062020abb0246 |