SMASCH PROJECT

Specimen MAnagement System for California Herbaria

The SMASCH project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has completed the development of a database of text data and images of specimens that document the distribution and classification of the plants of California. The project began in 1992. Information from over 300,000 specimens has been entered.

The web interface to SMASCH data is being modified as review of images and other database cleanup is proceeding.

The present experimental interface, which requires a recent version of the Netscape (>= 4.04) or Internet Explorer (>= 5.0) browsers, is available ...

for accession records,

Query by scientific or common name, restricted by county, collector, date of collection, or collection number; return accession records

for collecting-event data,

Query by county, collector, date of collection; return reference to all specimens, grouped by locality and date.

and

for browsing the taxonomic hierarchy of California plants.

Display names; navigate to accession records or county distribution maps. (Requires a Java plugin which is not yet available for Macintosh.)

• Obtain documentation for the data entry software, database structures, and data entry procedures

You can contact us about special requests and / or progress on the SMASCH redesign by sending e-mail to the SMASCH project.