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    DATABASING OF COLLECTIONS & INFORMATION

    Africa - Criptogams

    The Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) is the largest Portuguese Herbarium. The information contained in it is being databased and made available in the Internet: http://www.uc.pt/herbario_digitalComputadores

    Databasing of specimens

    The information contained in the label of each specimen is entered in the database SPECIFY. This information is associated to the bar-code that identifies the specimen and is stored in digital form.

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    Digitising specimens


    We facilitate the access to the collection by providing high quality TIFF images of the specimens. For performance reasons the images available in the Internet are smaller (JPEG format).The use of these images contributes to long-term preservation of the collection, by reducing the demand for direct handling and loans of the actual specimens.

    The specimens are digitized in a HerbScan, an equipment developed at Kew Herbarium that makes possible to create high quality digital scans of flat herbarium material while avoiding damage to the specimens. The HerbScan consists of a mobile frame in which a standard flat-bed scanner is held in an inverted position, with a rising bed mechanism that brings flat upright specimens to the scanning surface.

    The effort on the databasing of the HerbariumA few projects have provided the financial support for databasing and digitising COI. In 21.March.2007, X specimens have been dealt with. They are from continental Portugal, Africa, Brasil and also cryptogams.

    5/4/2007
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