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JABOT reaches 3 million records and 100 partner herbaria
The JABOT platform, developed by the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (JBRJ), reached the milestone of 3 million plant records and 100 Brazilian herbarium partners on January 28, 2025.
JABOT is a system for managing scientific collections deposited in herbaria and laboratory networks of botanical research institutions and the living collections of botanical gardens. Among other things, it provides various productivity monitoring and reporting functions for curators and subcurators of these collections.
As well as being a tool for herbarium managers, the platform also offers a consultation page with various filter options, which anyone connected to the internet can use to search for data on these collections. You can find out, for example, how many and which samples of a particular species a partner herbarium has in its collection, access images of the samples, search by state of the federation, by the names of the collectors and determiners, among other consultation possibilities.
Jabot is one of the biodiversity information systems maintained by the Scientific Research Directorate (Dipeq) of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. The coordinator of Dipeq's Scientific Computing Center, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, has been working on the project since its first version, launched 20 years ago. He explains that, since 2016, JABOT has been shared with Brazilian herbaria and botanical gardens and is currently in use in 22 states.
“Its functionalities have contributed significantly to making data and images available, facilitating research in areas such as taxonomy, phylogeny and the geographical distribution of plants. This initiative not only supports biodiversity conservation, but also favors the development of more effective public policies for the protection of Brazilian flora. The data is also published through the Data Portal, encouraging the generation of knowledge about the flora. We would like to thank all those involved in supporting the system, especially the curators, for their confidence in using it in their collections and for their contributions to improving Jabot,” concludes Luís Alexandre.