Herbaria

The Harvard Herbarium has an archive of thousands of plant specimens. These specimens are made up of pressed and dried flowers, leaves etc on a large paper, along with an annotated note about their species, collection date etc. These specimens are digitally scanned and stored in a system that allows researchers to view scans and manually enter the information to digitize the records. In addition, the records are searchable and viewable to other researchers.The herbarium has designed several custom solutions that speed up this manual data entry process. For this project, they would like to adapt these workflows to work with an industry standard system called Symbiota. This is used by other Herbariums around the world, each with their own custom instance.