Credits and Thanks

Herbarium Histories is a major public-access resource produced by the wider research project 'Field/Work in the Archive: Herbaria as Sites of Cultural Exchange', based at the Natural History Museum of Denmark and supported by the Augustinus Fonden through their grant program Forskning i Kulturarv.

Herbarium Histories

 

This portal, its data model, its search functions, and its user interface have been collaboratively conceptualised and produced by:

  • Principal Investigator: Dr Martha Fleming, Associate Professor and Visiting Researcher, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Digital Archive Architect: Richard Weaver, Digital Archivist and QA Engineer, Woven Arts Protocol, Amsterdam

Collection and data curation, imaging, cataloguing, refining and enhancement have been effected by:

  • Dr Martha Fleming, Botanical Specimen and Archival Research, Project Management: Principal Investigator, Associate Professor and Visiting Researcher, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Dr Justin Wynns, Botanical Specimen Research, Imaging and Data Management: Herbarium C, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
  • Dr Simon Rastén, Archival Imaging and Data Management: Botanical Archives of the Natural History Museum of Denmark (2023-2024)
  • Dr Christina Petterson, Archival Research, Imaging and Data Management, Rigsarkivet: Independent Scholar and Lecturer, Institut for Kultur, Sprog & Historie Afdeling for Teologi, Ilisimatusarfik University, Nuuk, Greenland
  • Olivia Trude Struve, Data Structuring and Enhancement of Zotero Reference Library: Afdeling for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Aarhus University
  • Thomas Bagge, Archival Imaging, Aurelia von Schmidten's Tegninger af Planter fra St Thomas (1824-1848): Thomas Bagge Photography

 

With support from Collection and Curation Staff at Natural History Museum of Denmark:

  • Christian Lange, Teamleader and Collection Coordinator
  • Jens Soelberg, Collections Manager, General Herbarium, Herbarium C
  • Hannah May Elvery, Collections Manager, General Herbarium, Herbarium C
  • Olaf Ryding, Collections Manager (retired), Vascular Plants, Herbarium C
  • Natasha de Vere, Curator of Botany
  • Nina Lundholm, Curator, Algae, Bryophytes and Lichens
  • A. Lif Lund Jakobsen, Archivist and Manager of Special Collections (2023-2025)

 

Martha and Richard would like to thank the following colleagues for their guidance and advice while building Herbarium Histories:

  • Jesse Bayker, Director, New Jersey Slavery Records, Rutgers University
  • Louise Cole, Production Director, Cogapp
  • Neil Hawkins, Deputy Technical Director, Cogapp
  • Trip Kirkpatrick, Technical Lead, Digital Scholarship, Yale University Library
  • Tracy MacMath, Digital Accessibility and Design Manager, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
  • Sharon Leon and the team at Omeka S
  • Daniel Berthereau, Sempiternelia - humanités numériques
  • Anders Drud Jordan, Head of Exhibitions and Digital, Natural History Museum of Denmark
  • Kim Steenstrup Pedersen, Professor of Computer Science and Curator of Digital Collections, Natural History Museum of Denmark
  • Tim Robertson, Deputy Director and Head of Informatics, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Melianie Raymond, Community and Capacity Manager, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Raymond Osei-Tutu, Permaculture Ghana (Gaia Holistic Gardens)

 

Herbarium Histories is built on Omeka S, an open source platform for sharing digital cultural heritage collections online created by the Digital Scholar team.

Field/Work in the Archive: Herbaria as Sites of Cultural Exchange

 

Research Team

  • Principal Investigator Dr Martha Fleming, Associate Professor and Visiting Researcher, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
  • Co-Investigator Dr Casper Andersen, Professor, History of Ideas, School of Culture and Society, University of Aarhus
  • Co-Investigator Dr Signe Mellemgaard, Associate Professor, Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
  • Co-Investigator Dr Jens Soelberg, Curator, Museum of Natural Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen (to 2023) and Collections Manager, General Herbarium, Natural History Museum of Denmark
  • Dr Simon Rastén, Postdoc (2023-2024), Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
  • Dr Justin Wynns, Botanical Imaging, Data Management and Metadata Structures, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
  • Olivia Truve Strude, MA Intern (2023), Afdeling for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Aarhus University

 

Special Advisors

  • Anthon Møller, Eugenius Specimen transcription and translations
  • Einar Lund Jensen, Eugenius Specimen translations

 

Natural History Museum of Denmark collaborating staff:

  • Institutional Lead Dr Juliette Fritsch, Deputy Director (2017-2023)
  • A. Lif Lund Jacobsen, Archivist and Manager of Special Collections (2023-2025)
  • Olof Ryding, Collections Manager (to 2023), General Herbarium
  • Natasha de Vere, Curator of Botany

 

Danish Visiting Expert Group:

 

International Advisory Board:

 

 

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