Saint-Hilaire virtual herbarium, a new upgradeable tool to study Brazilian botany

The new Franco-Brazilian website “Saint-Hilaire virtual herbarium” offers dynamic online consultation of all specimens and manuscripts of the naturalist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, providing links between specimen images and associated textual data, including notes available in his field books. This t...

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Published in:Adansonia 2013, Vol.35 (1), p.7-18
Main Authors: Pignal, Marc, Romaniuc-Neto, Sergio, Souza, Sidnei De, Chagnoux, Simon, Canhos, Dora Ann Lange
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
America
Biodiversity
Biological and medical sciences
Botanics
Brazil
Brésil
Cahiers de récoltes
Chorology
Computer Science
Field notes
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Herbier virtuel
Life Sciences
Plant cytology, morphology, systematics, chorology and evolution
Saint-Hilaire
Site web
Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
Thallophyta
Vegetal Biology
Virtual herbarium
website
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Summary:The new Franco-Brazilian website “Saint-Hilaire virtual herbarium” offers dynamic online consultation of all specimens and manuscripts of the naturalist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, providing links between specimen images and associated textual data, including notes available in his field books. This tool aims at facilitating the work of taxonomy and systematic botany and allowing a more accurate reconstruction of the routes and time frame of Saint-Hilaire's exploration. All specimens are being digitized by the Paris herbarium (P) and added online. The system will also offer Saint-Hilaire's major publications online. The nomenclature and determinations are automatically updated through dynamic links to the SONNERAT/MNHN database. In this paper, we propose moreover a standard for the correct citation of Saint-Hilaire specimens.
ISSN:1280-8571
1639-4798
DOI:10.5252/a2013n1a1