Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Development of an open source database on the plant collections from Mongolia (Mongolian Republic) held at the Herbarium of the University Halle-Wittenberg
Final Report Abstract
The Herbarium of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg harbours the worldwide third largest collection of plants from the Mongolian Republic, superseded in size only by those in Ulaan Baatar (Mongolia) and St. Petersburg (Russian Federation). The collection of Mongolian plants (ferns and fern-allies, seed plants) is technically excellently prepared and conserved, well-organised and easily accessible according to international standards for botanical collections. The specimens are scientifically well-identified by taxonomic specialists due to long-lasting and ongoing scientific collaborations with Mongolian and Russian researchers and serve as a reference collection for visiting scientists from different fields of research for identification purposes. During the whole project, the data of the complete collection of Mongolian plants in HAL have been entered in the Flora- GREIF-database. Thus, in all the data of 12.446 herbarium sheets are available online. Additionally the locality data of 9.378 specimens with lacking original coordinates were georeferenced. Thus geographic coordinates are available for almost all databased specimens from HAL. Aims and main results of the databasing project have been published.
Publications
- (2013): Databasing of the herbarium of Mongolian plants at Herbarium Universitatis Halensis (HAL). Schlechtendalia 27: 5–6
Ungethüm, K., Braun, U., Röser, M.
