Moscow Digital Herbarium and the National Depository Bank of Live Systems Initiative (Russia)

Moscow University Herbarium (MW)

Founded ca. 1780
The second largest herbarium in Russia
Six

Specimen Total

1,011,253 specimens (as of Nov 2016)
including:
924,167 vascular plants
77,086 bryophytes
ca. 10,000

Specimen Ranking
61th in the world
24th among university herbaria
2nd in Russia (after

Collection Growth

Mean annual increase in 2005-2016 was 15,100 specimens
In 2016, we

Taxonomic Outline

39,323 species (excl. historic collections)
including:
37,100 vascular plants
2,223 bryophytes
Types of ca.

Plant Taxonomy in the Moscow University

60 new species of vascular plants were

Geographical Scope: Vascular Plants

Moscow University Project

Moscow University have received 750,000,000 RUR (ca. 10,910,000 Euro)

Moscow University Project: Plants

125,000,000 RUR (ca. 1,820,000 Euro) for plant studies

Digitisation as a World Trend

Leiden (Netherlands)

Paris (France)

New York (USA)

Equipment or Services?

or

Herbarium Budget in 2015-2016

Contract with a commercial partner:
11,850,000 RUR (ca. 172,360

Extra Funding in 2015-2016

Development of the web portal:
2,500,000 RUR (ca. 36,400

Digitisation: Imaging as the First Step

Only imaging at 300 dpi TIFF (JPG

Area Codes from Folders

←Area codes of Eastern Europe

↑ Area codes of

Metadata Production
Table showing presence of 11 specimens of Limonium dichroanthum (Rupr.)

Barcodes as an Accurate Counter

Eastern European collections:
338,940 specimens before barcoding
352,720 specimens

Metadata Example

Stipa sibirica
Area S2
(Altai & Sayany)

Current Digitisation Rate

785,844 specimens (77.7%) are scanned and available online including:
708,209

Digital Collections Ranking

Current Digitisation Coverage

2017

2017

Digitisation: Quick Geotagging

Country names were used as geotags
756K specimens were geotagged

Asian Resources: 301K Specimens

Russia 157,200 specimens
Middle Asian countries 94,100
Mongolia 27,300
PR of China

Online Access

http://plant.depo.msu.ru/ (public access)
Russian / English versions
786K specimens at 300

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Home page

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Full search form

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Geographical areas as the most precise geotags

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

“Live search” feature in taxonomic fields

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Results as a table

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Specimen record

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

JPG files are directly available at 300 dpi

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

JPG files are directly available at 300 dpi

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

JPG files are directly available at 300 dpi: label at 100%

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Gallery feature for quick scrolling of JPG files as slideshow

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Gallery feature for quick scrolling of JPG files as slideshow

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Alternative results page used for Google indexing

https://plant.depo.msu.ru/

Alternative specimen record used for Google indexing

Digitisation: Label Capturing as the Second Step
45,000 labels will be databased in

Digitisation: Georeferencing as the Third Step
3,000 specimens were georeferenced in 2017
A single

PR and Promotion

Four appearances on federal TV
Dozens of communications in

MW Herbarium by the End of 2018

1,050,000 physical specimens (60th in