2. Herbarium Management
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Multiple Taxonomies
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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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7. filing issues
finding specimens
Arabidopsis thaliana / Cardaminopsis thaliana /
basionym: Arabis thaliana
Arrangement of specimens
Annotation on specimens
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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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11. Online Resources
Classifications / Taxonomies
https://131.130.131.9/output/classificationBrowser.php
YII framework / service based architecture
Leverage
http://www.gbif.at/index.php?id=4552
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12. Open Questions
Services
persistent availability of external services
caching vs. Incorporating of „used“ data
GUIDs
Data
persistent availability of external services
complementing DataStores
forking / propagating Content
Standards
TDWG / CIDOC - CRM
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13. Open Questions
Filing
Update or Conservative
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