Abstract

Managing a century of Botanical Collections in Southern California
Track: Public Gardens Solutions
Authors: Dave Sivertsen, Katie Chiu

Challenge: Integrate a century of diverse plant collection records into modern GIS. Plants multiply, interbreed, die off, and reappear. Location matters. We preserve the taxonomic information in a legacy database, and migrate plant information into the ARCGIS APGA model. This provides a wide range of avenues: web apps, mobile devices, browser and desktop, to allow staff to map, manage, analyze and interpret the collections and serve the missions of public education and preservation.