General Thoughts

Composition / Structure / Size of a Herbarium Collection

Activities of internal staff (few K pa)purpose driven activities (specific coll.)

random (general coll.)

Acquisition of material from external sourcespersonal herbaria (few K to 1 M)exchange of material (few K)

Acquisition of abandoned institutions (few 10K)

Merging of institutions / collections ( parallel worlds )

Virtual Herbaria ---> JACQ

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General Thoughts

Purpose and Value of a Herbarium Collection

Voucher material for scientific projects

Basis for Floristic and Taxonomic work

Historical evidence

Nomenclatural acts

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General Thoughts

Collaborative / Integrative / Open approach

once record is entered in common system reusable for others

Lookup tables (webservices) forPerson Names, incl. min. biographic data

Geographic Names

Scientific Names, incl. Common Name representations

Classification Systems (webservices ?)

Direct output of data via standard routes (csv, kml, ABCD)

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databasing issues

Legibility and perceivability of the label texthandwriting often using gothic letters; latin text

historical placenames and political entities

missing information

Taxonomy / Synonymyold vs. current(ly used) names

differing taxonomies

Geographic Reference SystemsUTM / Lat/Long coordinates / raster grids

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Digitizing the Vienna Herbaria

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Prerequisites

webbased front end – platform „independent“– no separate client software installation

unicode

nomenclature – multiple taxonomies

GIS output capabilities

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Back End

MySQL 5.1

input server + replicated output server(s)

image servers / SAN solution 20TB

Front End

php / javascript / xajax / jquery

Input / Output / Imageserver / Access

Fuzzy Matching Services (Taxamatch)

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Multimaster Architecture

specimen

simplified data model

names taxonomic backbone

monographsrevisions

florasarticle-level

protologuesgeographic reference

actor / person / team institution / collection

type

reference outside local db (IPNI, IF, PL; HUH; geonames, BHL)(G)UID

det.

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Managing the Vienna Herbaria

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Consortium 2011-10

GJO – Joanneum, AT ~ 600 K / 6% - T ~ 5.000 – 0%

GZU – Karl Franzens University of Graz, AT ~ 800 K / 8% - T ~ 8.000 / 73%

HAL – Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, GE ~ 500 K / 1% - T ~ 10.000 / 52%

JE – Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena – Herbarium Haussknecht, GE ~ 3 M / 0,7% - T ~ 30.000 / 70%

KUFS – Kabul University, AF ~ 23k / 97% - T ~ ?

MJG – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, GE ~ 40 k / 6% - T ~ 500 / 0,2%

MNHM – Natural History Mainz, GE ~ 48 k / 2% - T ~ 500 / 0%

TGU – University of Montenegro, ME ~ 15 k / 2% - T ~ 50 / 0%

W – Natural History Museum Vienna, AT ~ 5.5 Mio / 1,4% - T ~ 200.000 / 11,2%

WU – University of Vienna, AT ~ 1.5 Mio / 4% - T ~ 75.000 / 9,9 %

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Kurt Zernig (GJO); Anton Drescher, Helmut Mayrhofer, Walter Obermayer, Christian Scheuer (GZU); Wolfgang Neuner, Gerhard Tarmann (IBF), Michael Malicky (LI); Toni Igersheim, Robert Sailer, Ernst Vitek, Bruno Wallnöfer (W); Fritz Ehrendorfer, Walter Gutermann, Tod Stuessy, Walter Till (WU); Walter Behrendsohn, Markus Döring, Werner Greuter (B); Jarlie Jarvis (BM); José Murillo (COL); Philip Silverstone-Sopkin (CUVC); Juri Roskov (LE/RNG); Uwe Braun, Martin Röser (HAL); Richard Saunders (HKU); Hermann Manitz, Jochen Müller (JE); Gill Challen, John Dransfield, Sally Hinchcliffe (K); Paul Keßler (L); Stephan Beck (LPB); Wilfried Morawetz (LZ); Doug Daly, Andrew Henderson, Jacky Kallunki, Scott Mori, Michael Nee, Wayt Thomas, Tom Zanoni (NY); Tom Croat; George Schatz (MO); David Johnson (OWU); Thierry Deroin, Annick LeThomas, Odile Poncy (P); Tiangang Gao (PE); Frank Bisby (RNG); Renato Mello-Silva, José Rubens Pirani (SPB); Gerhard Gottsberger (ULM); Paul & Hiltje Maas, Lubbert Westra, Gea Zijlstra (U); Lars Chatrou (WAG); Otto Huber (VEN)Gerhard Glatzel (ÖAW); Martin Götzl, Herbert Schenz, Kathi Schleidt (UBA); Paul Schreilechner (BioGIS), Wolfgang Koller, Barbar Pratschner, Johannes Schachner

FWF, ÖAW, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, GBIF, Species2000