Tutorial
On the left side you find an image of a specimen.
On the right side you will be asked for information you can find on the main label of the specimen.
The fields requested initially are simple.
Registered users are promoted as they accumulate validated answers.
High levels are asked for fields considered more difficult to interpret.
Flora of Timor-Leste
The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) project “Establishing the National framework and operational capacity for implementing the Nagoya Protocol in Timor-Leste” was funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF), that funds projects of developing countries to meet the objectives of global environmental conventions and agreements. This project will support the creation of databases to help the guidance of future research activities in Timor-Leste.
The Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) collaborates by digitising the herbarium specimens collected in Timor-Leste housed at COI. This involved digital photography of these specimens that are now ready for the databasing in the platform EXPLORATOR, which relies on the help of citizens to transcribe the information on each specimen label. All content will be available in the Herbarium online catalogue and GBIF, thereby providing information on the flora of Timor-Leste.
image: Colin Trainor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
