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SERFIS: A METHODOLOGY FOR MAKING MULTI‐HERBARIA SPECIMEN DATABASES A REALITY
Author(s) -
Macrander A. Michael,
Haynes Robert R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1223090
Subject(s) - herbarium , database , frame (networking) , microcomputer , geography , computer science , resource (disambiguation) , process (computing) , information retrieval , ecology , biology , telecommunications , chip , computer network , operating system
Summary The Southeastern Regional Floral Information System (SERFIS), a multi‐institutional specimen‐based database, is being developed at the University of Alabama. At maturity, it will contain full label data for specimens housed in the nearly 120 herbaria of the southeastern United States. Specimen labels are photographed with still frame video cameras. Each label image is recorded digitally to disk on a microcomputer. These label images are viewed by trained data entry personnel and keyed into HERB, the SERFIS data management system. In the process of developing this regional database, institutional databases are being established at each participating herbarium to provide computerized collection management capabilities within each. The resultant SERFIS database is to be managed as a research resource for systematic and conservation investigations.