herbUA Collectors: An open-source framework for online publication of the herbarium collector-centric data

The digitization of herbarium collections is typically aimed at mobilizing and distributing data about the specimens, while often omitting data about the individuals who contributed to the formation of these collections. Despite the obvious need to create databases of herbarium collectors, as well as to structure and standardize the data about them, there is currently no consolidated view on this regard. Moreover, there is no simple and quick way to present such data online. Therefore, here I introduce a repo that allows for easy configuration of WordPress to display data about herbarium collectors.

This article describes the herbUA Collectors repo, allowing for the configuration of a standard WordPress installation for (a) filling and representing the database of the herbarium collectors; (b) representing records about each collector as a single web page; (c) providing an interactive map search facility; (d) visualizing the basic statistics on the database.