Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania State University Herbarium)

The Pennsylvania State University Herbarium will expand the online presence of its collection, providing a ready reference for Penn State as well as the larger botanical community. The project team will augment the existing digital herbarium by imaging, transcribing, and georeferencing 32,000 additional plants. The digital images will help reduce the amount of specimen handling by staff, students, and researchers. Penn State will partner with Arizona State University to make the images available to the public through the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria regional data portal. As a result of this project, 90 percent of the Penn State collection will be available online.