This document discusses several topics relating to herbarium management, including the history and size of collections, the purpose and value of collections, collaborative and integrated approaches, issues with taxonomy and systems, online resources, and open questions. Key points are the importance of herbarium collections for verification, research, and nomenclature, the need for standardized and virtualized data accessible to all, and challenges around taxonomy, filing systems, and ensuring persistent access to services and data.
3. General Thoughts
History / Structure / Size of Herbarium Collection(s)
Activities of internal staff (few K pa)
purpose driven activities (specific coll.)
random (general coll.)
Acquisition of material from external sources
personal herbaria (few K to 1 M)
exchange of material (few K)
Acquisition of abandoned institutions (few 10K)
Merging of institutions / collections ( parallel worlds )
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4. General Thoughts
Purpose and Value of a Herbarium Collection
Voucher material – Verification possible
Basis for Floristic and Taxonomic work
Historical evidence
Nomenclatural acts
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5. General Thoughts
Collaborative / Integrative / Open approach
virtualized data reusable for others
Lookup tables ( webservices ) for
Person Names, incl. min. biographic data
Geographic Names
Scientific Names, incl. Common Name representations
Classification Systems / Taxonomies
( publications / webservices )
Data-Output via standard routes
(rdf, xml, kml / ABCD, DwC, ESE, EDM)
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6. issues
Taxonomy / Synonymy
old vs. current(ly used) names and taxonomic concepts
incongruent taxonomies
Systems / Taxonomies available online
PL / Tropicos / APweb / Euro+Med / FEu /
MycoB / IFung / AlgaeB /
CoL /
analog Systems available
infinite
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9. simplified data model
det. actor / person / team institution / collection
type specimen names taxonomic backbone
geographic reference protologues monographs
revisions
floras
article-level
(G)UID
reference outside local db (IPNI, IF, PL; HUH; geonames, BHL)
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10. Building Services
Motivation
Virtual dynamic arrangement and analyses of Collections
Poaceae Types
Flora Projects ( Flora of Austria, Flora Iranica ) / native
GBIF Austria / Synonymy
Creation of Hierarchy at any rank
Flora of Austria backbone
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