From within its spirit vault filled with mysterious, murky glass jars and decades-old collector numbers pencilled in script on fragile labels, to its massive banks of dried plant specimens, the CSIRO in Canberra is embarking on an ambitious project to transform the physical to the digital.
All the specimens held within the Australian National Herbarium, one of Australia's largest plant collections, is slowly being uploaded for public access, a process which when complete will amass 220,000 terabytes of imagery, protected against the ravages of time and degradation for future generations.
