Hard Copy to Digital: Flora Neotropica and the World Flora Online

Abstract

Abstract One of the greatest challenges in achieving the goals of the World Flora Online (WFO) will be to make available the huge amount of botanical information that is not yet available digitally. The New York Botanical Garden is using the Flora Neotropica monograph series as a model for digitization. We describe our efforts at digitizing Flora Neotropica monographs and why digitization of hardcopy descriptions must be a priority for the WFO project.

Keywords

• Monografias eletrônicas
• open access
• Flora Neotropica
• monografias