Digitization of types

Digitization of vascular plant type collections at the Department of Botany (S)

Digitization procedure means capturing images and data (metadata) and storing them in the digital form. Team members at our department revise and enhance specimen data entered into our on-line database Herbarium Catalogue. Type records are reviewed and their status are verified through examination of their original publications. The aim is to provide as much information as possible. The most important information is the collection label.

Specimens are scanned with a resolution of 600 dpi, corresponding to about seven times magnification. This is standard for the GPI project. Images are saved as uncompressed TIFF-files, but also as jpeg-files for Herbarium Catalogue.

The images are stored in the museum servers, sent to JSTOR on a portable disk drive and uploaded to our botanical database Herbarium Catalogue. Some images or interesting facts are also shared in Facebook.

The project team members are Johannes Lundberg, Karin dos Santos, Dick Andersson, and Arne A. Anderberg.

The list of links below leads you to our project pages where you can read more about our type collections, main collectors and details on the digitization processes.

Scanning Project
Type collections in S
Collectors in S
Herbarium Catalogue

Text by Karin dos Santos