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Exploring and archiving Herbarium images

Explore the challenges faced by herbaria in archiving and digitizing millions of specimens. Join the effort to develop a collaborative solution. EUDAT offers long-term storage and secure protocols for efficient progress.

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Exploring and archiving Herbarium images

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  1. Elspeth Haston Simon Chagnoux Exploring and archiving Herbarium images

  2. Challenges • 500 million specimens in herbaria all over the world • Global trend to industrial digitizing • Data difficult to handle even for medium size institutes • Same challenges being faced by potentially hundreds of herbaria in Europe • Makes sense to work together to develop a solution tiff: 180MB zip: 80MB jpg: 1MB Total: 161MB

  3. Risks • Serious risk of losing data – several institutes already had losses • Duplication of effort in finding a solution – waste of time and money • Without a solution many tools are not available to institutes resulting in inefficient progress at best

  4. Why EUDAT? • CINES experience • Large volume • Long term storage • Secure protocols • Bringing together knowledge on image analysis • Light client installation

  5. The expected future impact • Service extended beyond the five pilot institutes • Specimens discoverable by the entire scientific community • Solution will be of interest to similar collections in other parts of the world as well as by other collections such as the wider museum community and libraries

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