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Digitization and the richness of type specimens at the Paris Herbarium -

Digitization and the richness of type specimens at the Paris Herbarium -. Pascale Chesselet & Jean-Noël Labat Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris, France. Spotlight on the Global Plants Initiative. Global Plants Initiative. The aim of GPI:

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Digitization and the richness of type specimens at the Paris Herbarium -

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  1. Digitization and the richness of type specimens at the Paris Herbarium - Pascale Chesselet & Jean-Noël Labat Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris, France Spotlight on the Global Plants Initiative

  2. Global PlantsInitiative • The aim of GPI: To build a comprehensive online researchtoolaggregating and linkingscholarlybotanicalresourcesaround the world http://plants.jstor.org

  3. International collaboration148 institutes in 52 countries

  4. High-Resolution Type Specimens and Supporting Materials 24 bit colour, 600 dpi, Tiff Original scans ± 200 Meg Flashpix technology ± 50-80 Meg – multiple versions of files within itself FSI Viewer

  5. High resolution • 8 X whatcanbeseenwith the nakedeye

  6. Herbier Nationalde Paris (P & PC) 11 million specimens > 600 000 types Vascular Plants & Cryptogams Paris, Kew, New York, Geneva ………

  7. Type specimen digitization Image scan Bar code Label data capture Search for types Verification

  8. Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage to the Middle East 1700-1702 Data Dissections Detail measurements Annotations Original polynomial

  9. Types of economically important plants Siphonia brasiliensis Willd. Triticum durum Desf.

  10. Total: 978 108 specimens digitized of which 120 773 are types

  11. Geographic coverage of type secimens Vascular Plants Cryptogams America Asia Oceania New Caledonia North Africa Tropical Africa Madagascar Europe

  12. African Plants Initiative • 453 609 objects • 118 collections • 114 contributors • 31 countries • 4 years • ± 60 000 species

  13. API - Taxonomic backbone

  14. JSTOR Plant Science At the end of the project, the database should host 2.2 million type specimens that will be digitized, ingested and available on the website by 2012

  15. Features of GPI • Linking related materials - literature on Jstor • Several languages: English, French, Portuguese & Spanish • Materials available: from archival documents to periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, reference works, maps, specimens, illustrations…. • Advanced online tools …and more….

  16. How people are using GPI • Research (GPI, JStor) • Discovery (microscope surrogate) • Measuring & recording measurements • Species identification • Plant uses • Sharing • Editing and refining the data

  17. Outcome • Comprehensive datasets • Data repatriation • Tools for taxonomists • Building capacity - taxonomists • Fundamental species data (types) available world-wide

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