Integrating a historical and botanical work into modern collections and public platforms: The Flora of Forfarshire.

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dc.creatorDiaz, Amalia
dc.creatorWigley, Jessica
dc.creatorYatskievych, George
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T14:43:33Z
dc.date.available2017-10-10T14:43:33Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWilliam Gardiner (1809-1852) spent his life in the Dundee region of Scotland. He was born into a humble family and received a basic education, but his passion for botany and exploration brought him recognition from other botanists including William Jackson Hooker. His collections became popular among benefactors and botanical societies, who paid him for volumes of dried plants illustrative of the Scottish Flora. One of his most important works is The Flora of Forfarshire (Scotland), published in 1848, which comprises an annotated catalog of plants documented during his years of traveling the local countryside. The book is one of the most detailed snapshots of plant diversity in a local area in the mid-1840s. In order to help fund his field work and the publication of the book, Gardiner produced a limited number of supplementary volumes containing pressed specimens of selected species. One of the remaining copies of this plant folio is accessioned at the University of Texas Libraries. Given the historical and botanical value of this work, The UT Plant Resources Center initiated a project with the main goal of making it available to the scientific community and the public. This project also provides a student enrichment opportunity through the new Museum Studies Certification Program. The project consists of four main components: 1. Digitizing the book and the accompanying specimen folio. 2. Updating the botanical nomenclature and checking and correcting possible botanical misidentifications in the accompanying volume. 3. Introducing the updated information and the images into the herbarium database. 4. Making the book and botanical information available online through the Texas Scholar Works repository through the University of Texas Libraries. The supplementary volume contains specimens and information on 59 species of angiosperms, 17 ferns and allies, 37 bryophytes, 11 algae, and 10 lichens, collected at 36 total localities in Forfarshire (Forfar, or Angus, County) in Scotland. We have generated digital images of each page, and high quality prints with barcodes for each species. These data and links to image files are included in a database. To accomplish the last stage of the project, the images and a series of metadata that include collector, locality, date, and plant name will be compiled and uploaded to the Texas Scholar Works repository. A link to the images and the information will also be included in the Plant Resources Center herbarium website.en_US
dc.description.departmentIntegrative Biologyen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2N58D26G
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/62077
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofFlora of Forfarshireen_US
dc.relation.ispartofFlora of Forfarshireen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectBotanyen_US
dc.subjectFloraen_US
dc.subjectFlora of Forfarshireen_US
dc.subjectScotlanden_US
dc.subjectConferenceen_US
dc.subjectPlantsen_US
dc.subjectForfarshireen_US
dc.subjectHerbariumen_US
dc.subjectCollectionen_US
dc.titleIntegrating a historical and botanical work into modern collections and public platforms: The Flora of Forfarshire.en_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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