The Oregon Flora Collection

for the average plant enthusiast

About:

The Team

Project Manager - Chloe Gold

Object Preservation Manager - Cassidy Perkins

Metadata Manager - Haley Sherman

Repository Manager: Danielle Lichtenstein

The Collection

The Oregon Flora Collection (OFC) is a collection of botanical photographs and illustrations.

The collection was created by four students at the University of Oregon with a variety of educational backgrounds in majors like English, Dance, and Journalism. Despite their different majors, these students found a common interest in Oregon flora. They wanted to make a collection for people in Oregon who enjoy the plants they see everyday, but aren’t scientists. As a result, none of the plants in this collection are referred to using their scientific names, but instead their common names.

The Class

LIB 400: Humanities Data Management

Winter 2024 - Kate Thornhill

The Objects

Objects sourced from:

Information regarding an object’s ownership can be found in its individual record where there are links to its rights and creative commons statements.

All objects were available for educational re-use.

Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder

This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.

The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.

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