Project Detail

Digitalization of herbation of the Department of Biology I. Infrastructure

Name:	Digitalization of herbation of the Department of Biology I. Infrastructure
Researchers:	Kvíderová Jana (head – principal researcher)
Provider:	Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Number:	PRVA-2022-044
Realization from:	2022
Realization to:	2022
Summary:	The Herbarium of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, containing several thousand items, is an important element of the students' education, unfortunately his items are not available online. The goal of the first part of the project, implemented in 2022, is the acquisition and commissioning of the infrastructure, i.e. high resolution A3 scanner, digital camera with normal and macro lens, computer and software for image processing, and creating a test digitization of the first 20 items that will reflect the diversity of the digitized objects. In other subsequent parts of the project, all existing and newly delivered items will gradually be digitized and placement on a publicly accessible website.