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XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 9-15 September 2013 The use of available collection data for taxonomy and systematics KNAPP S. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. E-mail: s.knapp@nhm.ac.uk Collection data form the basis for all hypotheses in taxonomy (and its synonym systematics). Collections are the evidence upon which scientists base hypotheses of species circumscription, species distribution, phylogenetic relatedness and conservation threat. But what are collections? How useful are the specimens we hold in our cabinets in today’s world or e-interconnection and mass data analysis, particularly of molecular data? The commonly held view in our own community is that collections are critical for the rest of the biological enterprise, as is the work of taxonomists. But what kinds of collections do we need to do 21 st century taxonomy? I will explore some alternatives to traditional collections, and both problems in the integration of new and old collections for taxonomy and systematics and the meaning of available – just what does it mean to be available? Licensing and re-use of data is fast becoming an issue for both institutions and individuals – how available do things need to be to be scientifically useful? I will argue that indeed, collections are critical, but that we might need to rethink just what they really are. 65
XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 9-15 September 2013 The mass digitisation effort at the Paris National herbarium: implication and prospects of a new broadly available tool LE BRAS G. Herbier National, MNHN, Paris, France. E-mail: lebras@mnhn.fr Created in the early 90’s, Sonnerat-BryoMyco is the result of Paris herbarium’s databases merging. Meanwhile, it became the database of the French network of herbaria (Réseau des Herbiers de France). The network members have made the constitution of this base possible by getting involved in different international projects and programmes, such as GBIF, African Plant Initiative, Latin American Plant Initiative, Global Plant Initiative, OpenUp! and E-ReColNAt. The National Herbarium and its partners managed to make out of Sonnerat-BryoMyco a major collection database for botany. On this background, alongside with the renovation of Paris herbarium, a mass digitisation effort was carried out over the vascular plants and macroalgae’s collections of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. The database now gives access to ca. 6 million herbarium specimens, out of which ca. 5.45 million are imaged and basically databased. In order to complete the associated metadata, a citizen science project -les herbonautes- started. Internet users are invited to database herbarium’s sheet information through a web interface. These data, after quality check, will enrich the database. Sonnerat-BryoMyco gathers the virtual collections of several ancient and exceptional herbaria. Thus, it constitutes a good example of what could become a modern botanical collection database. Consequently to Paris and its partner’s efforts, a massive amount of data is now broadly accessible to the worldwide community of botanists. Sonnerat-BryoMyco’s continuous growth involves new possibilities (such as virtual consultation and determination) that need tools to be now developed. This creates broad new horizons for collaborative research in botany. What has been made so far now need corrections, and improvements in its quality, which requires the implication of botanists worldwide. 66
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