Ghulam Mujtaba Shah

There are many equipment required for plant collection and Preservation in a herbarium such as: Fireproof & Climate-Controlled Storage Cabinets, Plant Press, Blotting Paper / Absorbent Paper, Corrugated Cardboard, Field book, GPS Device / Smartphone with GPS, Hand Lens, Pruning Shears / Scissors, Digging Tools (Trowel or Small Spade) , Newspapers, Plant Identification Guides / Flora Books, Plastic Bags & Ziplock Bags, Alcohol or FAA (Formalin-Acetic-Alcohol Solution), Labels and Tags, Drying Cabinet / Herbarium Dryer, Herbarium Sheets (Acid-Free Paper, A3 or A4 size), Gum Arabic / Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA) Glue / Archival Adhesive, Stitching Thread or Strips of Adhesive Tape, Mounting Boards / Cardboards, Specimen Labels (Pre-printed Templates), Fumigation Chamber / Pest Control Insecticides (e.g., Naphthalene, Silica Gel).

To digitize herbarium specimens, mainly Imaging & Scanning Equipments like Flatbed Scanner, Digital Camera are required. Also Barcode Printer & Labels would help for assigning unique identifiers to specimens. Computer with High Storage Capacity is needed for managing digital images and records. Also there are Herbarium Database Software (Specify, BRAHMS, BIOTA, or Custom-built Database) for organizing and managing digital records. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software would help in digitizing handwritten herbarium labels.

You look expert in Herbarium management and digitization.If you kindly share more information or any document .I have nearly 10000 accessions which need to be digitised

Ghulam Mujtaba Shah

You will get a very clear idea of herbarium digitization workflow from the following article:

https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/47051/

(Title: Designing an Herbarium Digitisation Workflow with Built-In Image Quality Management)

Digitizing these many accessions is a good challenge.

All the Best for success.

There are several automated equipment, including temperature control, adequate physical structure without heavy materials, air extractor, pressurized cabins, ecological tables, thermometers, incubators, etc. Successes.

A good start point would be a copy of The Herbarium Handbook

Editors: Nina Davies, Clare Drinkell, Timothy Utteridge. 256 pp, 234 x 156 mm. Over 700 colour photographs. Paperback, ISBN 9781842467695. Kew Publishing, 2023.

(DELNATTE, 2015) The international standard format for herbarium sheets is 45 x 28 cm. However, in older collections, each collector adopted his own format. (Boletín de la A.H.I.M., 17: 19-22(2015), ISSN 1136-5048-e ISSN 2174-4610).

(Bridson & Forman, The Herbarium Handbook, 1998)

- 42 x 29 cm - U.S.A.

- 42 x 26 cm - Kew and some European herbaria.

- 44 x 29 cm - Natural History Museum, London.

A3 or cabinet size.