National Tropical Botanical Garden

The National Tropical Botanical Garden will accession, catalogue, and create descriptive, technical, and preservation metadata for 15,000 unaccessioned digital images of materials collected in the field in Hawai’i and the Pacific Basin by NTBG botanists over a 40-year period. The images and their records will then be linked to digital vouchers of herbarium specimens and to Latin and common plant names, and will be made available online. This project will improve access to digital data for plants of the Pacific Basin and will create new opportunities for scientists, students, and policymakers to discover and use collection data by particular species and/or location.