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National Botanic Garden ofBelgium (NBGB)

1826 : foundation of the scientific institution in Brussels1870: State Botanic Garden

1973: move to Meise

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Largest and most multidisciplinary botanic garden of Belgium

herbarium : 3 millions specimens

library : more than 250 thousand volumes

living plants : 18 thousand taxa in cultivation

indoor and outdoor

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Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Digitisation projects of the NBGB

Funded by the NBGB

Archives and library

Conservation and the environment (120 participating herbaria from 40 countries)

API = African Plants InitiativeLAPI = Latin American Plants Initiative

Funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy

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API (Africa)

herbarium types (vascular plants) 41 000BW drawings (vascular plants) 1 500watercolours (microfungi) 1 300slides (microfungi) 2 000

LAPI (Latin America)

herbarium types (vascular plants) 7 600

Projects funded by The Mellon Foundation since 2003

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Project funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy

9 Partners

* Antwerp Botanic Garden * Hof ter Saksen Arboretum (Beveren) * Bokrijk Arboretum * Ghent University Botanic Garden * Kalmthout Arboretum * Leuven Botanic Garden * National Botanic Garden of Belgium * Robert Lenoir Arboretum (Rendeux) * Wespelaar Arboretum

Belgium's living plant collections: www.plantcol.be

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1996 Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical Africa and America 100 pictures

2000 AETFAT Bulletin, vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) 3 500 pages

2002 Nannenga-Bremekamp's original drawings and notes on Myxomycetes more than 5 000 items

2003 Pictures of the living collections more than 20 000 items (in progress)

2004 Slides of the indoor collections 5 000 slides

2004 Congo National Park Ruwengeri 38 maps (A0 format)

2006 Cryptogamic literature 2 000 reprints = 50 000 pages

2007 Bulletin du Jardin Botanique 33 500 pages

2007 Systematics and Geography of Plants 3 500 pages

2007 Correspondence archives 300 items

2009 Flore du Congo belge 4 289 pages (in progress)

Projects funded by NBGB

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API – LAPI BG-Base NBGB virtual herbarium / ALUKA

PLANTCOL Progress www.plantcol.be

Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical / CD-ROM Africa and America

AETFAT Bulletin ,vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) VubisSmart CD-ROM

Nannenga-Bremekamp'soriginal drawings and notes on Myxomycetes BG-Base CD-ROM

Pictures of the living collections / /

Slides of the indoor collections Progress /

Congo National Park Ruwengeri / DVD-ROM

Cryptogamic literature EndNote Intranet

Bulletin du Jardin Botanique VubisSmart JSTOR

Systematics and Geography of Plants VubisSmart JSTOR (back issues) / INGENTA (recent issues)

Correspondence archives VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)

Flore du Congo belge VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)

Metadata Dissemination

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NBGB Library

• one of the most important in Europe concerning descriptive botany• founded early 19th century

Mission

• to collect, catalogue and conserve complementary documentation to the herbaria and the living plant collections

• to serve staff as well as users from all over the world

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Collections

50 thousand books (2 500 valuable books)50 thousand separates7 thousand serials (1 100 current)archives : more than 300 run meters

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Topics

systematic botanyfloristicsplant ecologyhistory of botanyethnobotanyhorticulture

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Geographic fields

focussed on Central Africa and Europe (esp. Belgium)publications (e.g. modern floras) from all over the world

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Systematic groups

non-vascular plants including Fungivascular plants

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Computerized library catalogue VUBIS

start 1994online since 2007 : http://library.br.fgov.be

95 % of the collection (except reprints)118 000 bibliographic records

bibliographic records in Smart format (VubisSmart)export facilities to UNIMARC, MARC21 XML, Z39.50

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Records exported to 2 common catalogues

• ANTILOPE: Union catalogue of serials in Belgian & Dutch academic and special libraries 200 libraries (170 000 titles)

http://anet.ua.ac.be/submit.phtml

• Common Catalogue of the Belgian Federal Libraries: Public services & scientific institutions

24 libraries (4 millions records)

http://www.bib.belgium.be/

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New library digitisation project

Books (out of copyright)Works on Belgian botanyWorks on Central African botanyAlgological works of the Van Heurck collection

Original botanical drawings & watercolours

At present, discussion about technical issues (file format, technical & structural metadata)Start of the project in JulyOperational by the end of September

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Scanning equipment

• I2S copibook (as in Real Jardin botanico de Madrid and in the State Archives in Belgium)

=> small size books (max A3)

• digital view camera Betterlight super 10K-HS (as in Ghent University and in the Photography Museum Rotterdam)

=> large size books, maps, drawings

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Provisional workplan

material selection (collaboration between library and own researchers)

check if already digitized (BHL, , Madrid)

check

check / capture metadata in

file name and structure of metadata

scan

data processing to deliverables (under consideration)

store masters and deliverables

link to webfile

transfert to

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