Making professional record keeping easier
At the virtual annual American Public Gardens Association conference in June, we launched Hortis, our next generation plant collection platform. Here we share our key findings from the event, titled “Rethinking Plant Records”, and from its follow-up.
With the latest version of IrisBG, the Data Import required by the Floria App Manager is again made available to IrisBG users. Join our next webinar on the 12th August will explore collection value scoring.
In many regions of the world, more than 75% of the population has a smartphone. Consequently, with the technological advancements in smartphone photography, most people have a very good camera within easy reach. For botanic gardens, it is without doubt that historic images and contemporary photographs both hold vital information and purpose.
With more seamless image capture and management workflows, there is certainly a lot of potential to increase the usefulness of photographs in plant collections. Luckily there are new technology and software development techniques that can help us make this process easier.
In botanic gardens and collection management, we often find that fruitful collaboration can play a vital role in the garden’s pursuit to reach its goals. The importance of having the ability to innovate and adapt in our industry cannot be overstated. We are continuously presented with exciting new innovations, many of which can radically change the way we perceive actions and processes.
We want to do what we can to help you on that journey.
The Plant Records Webinar series kicked off on Thursday 3rd December with Dr Waheed Arshad discussing the exciting future of Augmented Reality (AR) in the context of plastic-free plant labelling, botanic
Wishing you the very best during the festive season, with much happiness and a safe and prosperous New Year. We really appreciate your continued support. Warmest wishes from the Botanical Software
The 2020 Plant Records Conference, originally scheduled for May at Mainz Botanic Garden, was held online on 5 and 6 November, with Mainz Botanic Garden as our virtual host. It was
Thank you again to everyone for joining and participating in this year’s 2020 Virtual Plant Records Conference. It was truly an enjoyable and enriching experience for us and I hope you
We are happy to inform you that Floria App Manager version 5 is now available from our download page. Join our webinar on Wednesday October 21st (3pm UK time / 10am
The Botanic Garden of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in collaboration with Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and developers of IrisBG and Floria will be hosting the 2020 Virtual Plant Records Conference on 5