Chapter II-4. Browsing By Collector

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In General: "Browse by" is the first choice on the Digital Herbarium navigation bar, and "Collector" is the second option under it. Selecting it opens a list of all the collectors in the system and a count of the number of collections and images they have in the system. Click the number of collections to go to the Collections tab of the Collection/Specimen display to see the Collection List. Click the number of images to go to the Images tab of the Collection/Specimen display to see thumbnail images for the collections.

Figure II-4.1. Collectors

Collectors

Procedure: 

  1. Select

    Browse byCollector

    from the Digital Herbarium navigation bar.

  2. On the list of collectors, click the number of collections or the number of images to move to the Collections tab or Images tab of the Collection/Specimen display.

Note

Click "info" after the collector's name to open a panel with the collector's personal statement of purpose. If you are on the collector information panel, click "View all collections by (collector's name)" at the bottom of the panel to go to the Collections tab of Collection/Specimen display.

Once you are in the Collection/Specimen display, you may click the Collections tab to see the collections for the collector, sort the Collection List by family, genus or specific epithet, and map the collections on the Map View tab. You can also download the collection information for use elsewhere. See Chapter III-9, Collection/Specimen Display: Collections tab for more information about the features of the Collections tab. See Chapter III-11, Collection/Specimen Display: Map View tab for more information about the features of the Map View tab.