digitization & citizen science, farlow herbarium (2014)

Digitization & Citizen ScienceFarlow Herbarium

Harvard University Herbaria

Web Portals to Herbarium Collections

Behind the Scenes: Digitization: Minimal Data Entry

Behind the Scenes: Digital Photos of Labels

Set-up for photographing labels

Cetraria oakesiana - Lichen and its Label (collection from Mt. Liberty, NH by Clara E. Cummings in 1892)

Gasparrinia elegans from Canadian Arctic, winter of 1915-1916

Bacidia beckhausii on reindeer bones from Alaska (1958)

Cetraria arenaria from Mt. Desert Island, ME (1876)

Flavoparmelia caperata from Willoughby Mt., VT; Faxon (1884)

Cladonia stellaris from Lake of the Clouds, NH (A. H. Moore in 1902)

Rinodina from Charlotte, VT (collected by C. G. Pringle in 1879)

Dibaeis from Petersham, MA (W. G. Farlow in 1890)

Dermatocarpon from Jamaica Plain, collected by Faxon (1882)

Lichen & Bryophytes: Volunteer: http://lbcc1.acis.ufl.edu/

Create Your Own Expedition or Record Set Link

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A Record Set in Lichen Portal

• Click on Symbiota ID

Web Form to transcribe label data

• C.A. Robbins collection of Cladonia from Wareham

Clara E. Cummings collection of Rhizocarpon from Wellesley

Faxon collection of Pseudocyphellaria from Jamaica Plain

Example of a label for data capture

Example of data record in need of completion

Record collector number and date

Record County and Locality

Record verbatim elevation in meters or feet

Hit ‘Tab’ key and elevation in Meters automatically fills-in

Capture habitat and substrate

Web form includes Tools to add Coordinates

Use tool to insert coordinate values

Click “Insert” and Lat/Long automatically fills-in

Example for inserting UTM Values

Save Edits from Completed Form

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Site for Macrofungi Collections and more: notesfromnature.org

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Collections include Macrofungi

Macrofungi: Welcome Screen

Macrofungi: Welcome Screen

A macrofungal label to transcribe

Click and drag a square around label, then click “Start this Record”

Clavaria label to transcribe

Country: United States

State: Vermont

County: Windham

Habitat and locality: beech-maple birch-hemlock woods; 1 mi. south of Williamsville

Date: August 14, 1961

Happy 90th Anniversary of the Farlow!