From Plant Press, Vol. 24, No. 2, April 2021.
The staff of the Department of Botany continues to make a strong push to make the U.S. National Herbarium’s collection of over 5 million specimens available online. The Botany Specimen Catalog is available at https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/botany/?ti=2. As the current pandemic continues, Botany staff sequestered in their homes continue to accomplish the goals of a fully accessible catalog of specimens. Below are some notable numbers and figures from the digitization project:
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4.14 million
The number of catalog records online
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3.6 million
The number of catalog images
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577,000 and 635,000
The number of catalog records and images, respectively, added in 2020
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95%
The percentage of all pressed sheets that have a catalog record
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325,000
The number of cryptogam (lichens and bryophytes) catalog records coming online soon
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Top 5
The country with the most collections is the United States, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru
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