
Overview
Our collection encompasses approximately one million vascular plant specimens from the Mediterranean and Middle East biodiversity hotspot, representing flora from Israel, Jordan, Hermon, Sinai, Egypt, the Caucasus, Arabia, North Africa, and throughout the Mediterranean basin. This scientifically significant repository includes published voucher specimens, original specimens used for "Flora Palaestina" illustrations, and critical references for the Israeli gene bank collections. The ongoing digitization process captures high-resolution images of each specimen while systematically incorporating label information into our computerized catalog. This virtual herbarium will democratize access to these valuable botanical resources, enabling global researchers to examine specimens in exceptional detail from anywhere in the world. Beyond preservation, this digital transformation unlocks new research possibilities through computational analysis of both visual specimen characteristics and associated metadata. The dataset will serve as a foundational resource for advancing botanical research, ecological modeling, taxonomic investigation, historical analysis, and numerous other scientific disciplines concerned with plant biodiversity in this ecologically and historically significant region.
Features and programs
Open Data Sponsorship Program
Pricing
This is a publicly available data set. No subscription is required.
How can we make this page better?
Legal
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
AWS Data Exchange (ADX)
AWS Data Exchange is a service that helps AWS easily share and manage data entitlements from other organizations at scale.
Open data resources
Available with or without an AWS account.
- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- HUJ Herbarium Collection Images
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::hujinnhc/specify_assets/
- AWS region
- il-central-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://hujinnhc/specify_assets//
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Contact
Managed By
National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
How to cite
National Herbarium of Israel was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/huj-herbarium .
License
CC-BY-SA 4.0
Similar products


