Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD)
The herbarium digitization process is an essential first step in transforming the vast amount of data associated with a physical specimen into flexible digital data formats. In this framework, the Herbarium of the University of Pisa (international code PI), at the end of 2018 started a process of di...
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| author | Francesco Roma-Marzio Simonetta Maccioni David Dolci Giovanni Astuti Nicoletta Magrini Federica Pierotti Roberta Vangelisti Lucia Amadei Lorenzo Peruzzi |
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| description | The herbarium digitization process is an essential first step in transforming the vast amount of data associated with a physical specimen into flexible digital data formats. In this framework, the Herbarium of the University of Pisa (international code PI), at the end of 2018 started a process of digitization focusing on one of its most relevant collections: the Herbarium of Michele Guadagno (1878–1930). This scholar studied flora and vegetation of different areas of southern Italy, building a large herbarium including specimens collected by himself, plus many specimens obtained through exchanges with Italian and foreign botanists. The Herbarium is composed by 547 packages of vascular plants. Metadata were entered into the online database Virtual Herbaria JACQ and mirrored into a personalized virtual Herbarium of the Botanic Museum. After the completion of the digitization process, the number of sheets preserved in the Herbarium amounts to 44,345. Besides Guadagno, who collected 42% of his specimens, a further 1,102 collectors are represented. Most specimens were collected in Europe (91%), but all the continents are represented. As expected, Italy is the most represented country (59%), followed by France, Spain, Germany, and Greece. The specimens cover a time span of 99 years, from 1830 to 1929, whereas the specimens collected by Guadagno range between 1889 and 1928. Furthermore, we traced 134 herbarium sheets associated with documents, among which 75 drawings handmade by Guadagno, 34 letters from various corresponding authors, 16 copies of publications, and 14 copies of published iconographies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ec99d594ffb412a8bf4654da293c40c2023-10-14T08:11:04ZengPensoft PublishersPhytoKeys1314-20032023-10-0123410712510.3897/phytokeys.234.109464109464Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD)Francesco Roma-Marzio0Simonetta Maccioni1David Dolci2Giovanni Astuti3Nicoletta Magrini4Federica Pierotti5Roberta Vangelisti6Lucia Amadei7Lorenzo Peruzzi8Università di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaUniversità di PisaThe herbarium digitization process is an essential first step in transforming the vast amount of data associated with a physical specimen into flexible digital data formats. In this framework, the Herbarium of the University of Pisa (international code PI), at the end of 2018 started a process of digitization focusing on one of its most relevant collections: the Herbarium of Michele Guadagno (1878–1930). This scholar studied flora and vegetation of different areas of southern Italy, building a large herbarium including specimens collected by himself, plus many specimens obtained through exchanges with Italian and foreign botanists. The Herbarium is composed by 547 packages of vascular plants. Metadata were entered into the online database Virtual Herbaria JACQ and mirrored into a personalized virtual Herbarium of the Botanic Museum. After the completion of the digitization process, the number of sheets preserved in the Herbarium amounts to 44,345. Besides Guadagno, who collected 42% of his specimens, a further 1,102 collectors are represented. Most specimens were collected in Europe (91%), but all the continents are represented. As expected, Italy is the most represented country (59%), followed by France, Spain, Germany, and Greece. The specimens cover a time span of 99 years, from 1830 to 1929, whereas the specimens collected by Guadagno range between 1889 and 1928. Furthermore, we traced 134 herbarium sheets associated with documents, among which 75 drawings handmade by Guadagno, 34 letters from various corresponding authors, 16 copies of publications, and 14 copies of published iconographies.https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/109464/download/pdf/ |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Roma-Marzio Simonetta Maccioni David Dolci Giovanni Astuti Nicoletta Magrini Federica Pierotti Roberta Vangelisti Lucia Amadei Lorenzo Peruzzi Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) PhytoKeys |
| title | Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) |
| title_full | Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) |
| title_fullStr | Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) |
| title_short | Digitization of the historical Herbarium of Michele Guadagno at Pisa (PI-GUAD) |
| title_sort | digitization of the historical herbarium of michele guadagno at pisa pi guad |
| url | https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/109464/download/pdf/ |
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