Science and Technology Production
Congress
Authorship
Alicia López Méndez
;
Eliana de Lujan Exner
;
YAÑEZ, AGUSTINA
Date
2024
Publishing House and Editing Place
Fase20
ISSN
978-84-09-63656-3
Summary
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Argentine Herbaria Network (RedHAr as in Spanish) was created in 2017 as an initiative of the Argentine Botanical Society with the purpose of bringing together people linked to herbaria to create a community to maintain and enhance collections through sharing experiences. Currently, RedHAr is integrated by 52 herbaria, located in 11 provinces, with a combination of affiliations (both public and private) and going to big herbariums with over 450.000 vouchers, to small herbariums with less than 5...
Argentine Herbaria Network (RedHAr as in Spanish) was created in 2017 as an initiative of the Argentine Botanical Society with the purpose of bringing together people linked to herbaria to create a community to maintain and enhance collections through sharing experiences. Currently, RedHAr is integrated by 52 herbaria, located in 11 provinces, with a combination of affiliations (both public and private) and going to big herbariums with over 450.000 vouchers, to small herbariums with less than 5.000. Over the last few years, as RedHAr, we put our efforts into organizing workshops for small and emerging herbaria, database management, digitization, conservation, and regulations for the import/export procedures. We have also organized conferences given by specialists in topics related to the activities of herbaria, open to all public. Our main goal in the near future is to make all the argentine herbaria databases (from small to large ones) accessible to our colleagues and to the general public in a simple way, through a sovereign open access repository. We are working to reunite in the same place the internal management of collections and the open access repository. . Here we present the results of the first collections held in herbaria survey carried out as a first step in the construction of that repository. More than 1.5 million specimens are held in 32 of the 52 RedHAr herbaria, among which, the predominant ones are vascular plants, stored as dried and pressed specimens, in envelopes or in fixative liquids. Geographic representation of the flora is in most cases regional (neighbor countries), national (Argentina) or local (provinces). The conservation status of the collections and data digitization process was generally self-defined as very good or good, but in most cases such digital data or specimens images cannot be accessed remotely, reinforcing the need of a national repository.
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Key Words
Accessibilityemerging herbariadigitalizationdatabasesurveynational repository