Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Funded mostly by Scottish Government Martin Pullan – Biodiversity informatics David Harris – Herbarium Curator
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Funded mostly by Scottish Government
Living Collections 66,000 occurrence records on Gbif Have been fully databased and searchable on the web for more than 15 years
Herbarium Collection c. 3 million specimens 400,000 specimens databased 100,000 specimens imaged
Objective Chinese and French model
1. Money to digitise Scottish Government is interested and has provided some funds
2. Tools to speed up population of databases from images
3. Web based mechanisms for enriching our data from experts and citizen scientists