The Plant Specimen Imaging Workbench provides online management tools for Biological Research Collections that are imaging and databasing their plant specimens. At present, the Workbench provides tools for keeping track of the specimens as they are imaged and the images as they are processed. The suite of tools provided here will expand in 2008 to include Optical Character Recognition processing of the images, use of the HERBIS web service for parsing the OCR text string into relevant fields, a proofreading interface for the HERBIS-parsed data, on-demand uploading of the specimen images to Morphbank, and data downloads to contributing Biological Research Collections.

The Workbench currently serves the five institutions involved in the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project. If you are interested in using the Workbench for another project, contact Austin Mast (Florida State University).

The construction of this cyberinfrastructure resource was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DBI-0646222. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.