Occurrence dataset Registered May 03, 2018
Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR)
Published by Meise Botanic Garden
Digitale Ontsluiting Erfgoedcollecties
Digitization of the Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium
Description
The Meise Botanic Garden herbarium is home to reference collections for the flora from Belgium, Latin America and Central Africa. There are around 4 million items in the collections in total, which are being digitised with support from the Flemish government in two projects – ‘Digitale Ontsluiting Erfgoedcollecties’ (Digitally Unlocking Heritage Collections, abbreviated to ‘DOE!’ and ‘DOE!2’).
As well as safeguarding the herbarium for future generations, the projects are also facilitating and accelerating the data being made available. Once the images have been digitised they can be consulted on www.botanicalcollections.be. This digitisation means anyone with an interest in the herbarium can access it online, and its fragile items remain safely stored away.
Funding
The Flemish Government
Contacts
Ann Bogaerts
Curator- Roles
- Curator
Sofie De Smedt
Point of contact- Roles
- Point of contact
Henry Engledow
Editor- Roles
- Editor
Quentin Groom
Publisher
- Roles
- Publisher
- User ID
Paul Van Wambeke
Programmer- Roles
- Programmer
Marc Sosef
User- Roles
- User
- User ID