Development of a Novel Image-based Web Portal for the Colorado State University Herbarium

科罗拉多州立大学植物标本馆是落基山脉南部最古老也是第三大的植物标本馆。该标本馆是科罗拉多州自然遗产计划、自然保护协会、科罗拉多州自然区计划和科罗拉多州国家公园服务单位收藏的主要保管库。所有94,420个标本都将被成像并建立数据库。标本将通过深度缩放格式在线公开访问，以便在Microsoft Live Labs Pivot中无缝查看高分辨率图像。物种和标本属性将被添加到界面上，这样普通公众就可以像科罗拉多州植物区系的交互密钥一样使用它，以及物种识别所需的放大的微观特征图像。该标本馆的藏品已经作为即将到来的全州植物区系的一部分进行了系统的注释，是理想的参考藏品。与植物群一起，基于Pivot的界面将使学生、普通公众、土地管理人员、研究人员和植物学家能够更有效和高效地识别科罗拉多州的维管植物。该数据库将记录当前的植物区系多样性，并帮助跟踪发展、气候变化和/或引入新物种所造成的变化。具有深度缩放的基于Pivot的界面将普遍适用，并使其他自然历史收藏可以访问。

The Colorado State University Herbarium is the oldest and third largest herbarium in the Southern Rocky Mountains. The herbarium is a major depository of collections made by the Colorado Natural Heritage Program, the Nature Conservancy, the Colorado Natural Areas Program, and the National Parks Service units in Colorado. All 94,420 specimens will be imaged and databased. Specimens will be made publicly accessible online with the Deep Zoom format for seamless viewing of high resolution images in Microsoft Live Labs Pivot. Species and specimen attributes will be added to the interface so that the general public may use it in the manner of an interactive key for the Colorado flora together with magnified images of microscopic traits necessary for species identification. The herbarium's collections have been systematically annotated as part of an upcoming state-wide flora and are an ideal reference collection. Together with the flora, the Pivot-based interface will enable students, the general public, land managers, researchers, and botanists to more effectively and efficiently identify vascular plants in Colorado. The database will document current floristic diversity and help track changes caused by development, climate change, and/or introduction of new species. The Pivot-based interface with Deep Zoom will be generally applicable, and made accessible to other natural-history collections.