[tdwg] New Web Interface for Herbarium Databases at Florida State Univ. and Tall Timbers Research Station

[amast at bio.fsu.edu]

It is our pleasure to announce a new interface for the specimen  
databases of Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium  
and Tall Timbers Research Station's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium  
(http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/).  Both herbaria are named for Bob  
Godfrey (1911-2000), a respected expert on the flora of the  
southeastern U.S.  The website serves data and images for ca. 60,000  
of FSU's ca. 205,000 specimens and nearly all (10,500) of Tall  
Timbers' specimens.  These specimens document diversity in the East  
Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, one of North America's biotic hotspots,  
as well as elsewhere (especially the Neotropics).

The new functionality allows new types of searches and results,  
including the following possibilities: (1) provide all specimens that  
were flowering in June in Leon County, Florida, irrespective of year,  
(2) map all specimens of invasive species collected in the past 10  
years in Florida, and (3) provide only the desired set of fields about  
the specimens of interest in a tab-delimited file that can be opened  
in Excel or other spreadsheet programs.  The search interface is also  
more convenient, with auto-fill of several fields (e.g., common name).  
  The popular display of results as a page of thumbnails is now one of  
four available result formats.

Florida State University gratefully acknowledges funding from the  
National Science Foundation (Awards 0956372 and 0646222), the Florida  
Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Fish and  
Wildlife Conservation Commission to support the digitization of its  
specimens and creation of the website. Tall Timbers Research Station  
gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation  
(Award 0956343) to support the digitization of its specimens.

We will be grateful for feedback on the new interface.  Please send  
comments to amast at bio.fsu.edu.

With best regards,

Austin Mast, Kevin Robertson, Alex Stuy, and Gil Nelson


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