faf7d8a5-6782-40c0-942f-ece6459b095b 1.19 EXPLORATOR - Crowdsourcing platform 2019 2020 2021 EXPLORATOR is a citizen science project of the Herbarium of the University of Coimbra to digitise the collection. By contributing to its digitisation, it is facilitating the investigation of botanists worldwide. The Herbarium joined the global effort to accelerate the study of plant diversity. Experts need quick access to the 392,353,689 specimens that exist in herbaria around the world and all the information they contain. This quick access helps research and knowledge about plants to advance, being possible to find timely solutions to problems that affect ecosystems. Joaquim Santos Herbarium of the University of Coimbra joaquim.santos@uc.pt Fátima Sales Herbarium of the University of Coimbra fsales@bot.uc.pt https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/faf7d8a5-6782-40c0-942f-ece6459b095b/attachments/data%20management.jpg data management.jpg data management Natural Science Collections Digitization Crowdsourcing Citizen Science data curation CC-BY 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) data curation data annotation data validation data processing data classification eng Development was funded by Project PORBIOTA—Portuguese E-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022127), under the Operational Thematic Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). It is maintained by the IATV – Instituto do Ambiente, Tecnologia e Vida and by the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra. explorator@uc.pt https://coicatalogue.uc.pt/explorator WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to access the service