Wikipedia:GLAM/St. Thomas College, Thrissur/Department of Botany

Welcome to the GLAM page for the Department of Botany, St. Thomas College. This is the project page to document information about the ongoing Herbarium Digitization Project at St. Thomas College, Thrissur. We More than 12,000 specimens in our Collections from 1952 onwards. In First Phase of the Project our team Digitized 1,130 Specimens (11.3%). The data and information currently available on https://herbarium.stthomas.ac.in/ and Media Uploading to Wikimedia Commons in progressing.

About us
St. Thomas College, Thrissur is the oldest Catholic College in Kerala, founded in 1889. The University of Madras gave formal affiliation to the institution in April 1919 as a Second Grade College. The College rose to the status of a First Grade College in 1925. With the formation of Universities in Kerala, the College was affiliated with the University of Kerala in 1957 and to the University of Calicut in 1968. The college was granted the status of Autonomous by University Grants Commission in 2014.

Department of Botany
The Department of Botany is one of the oldest departments of the college which started in 1951 with Natural Science as the Intermediate course. In 1958 three-year Degree course in Botany was started. The department has been offering a Postgraduate programme since 1968. The department was elevated to the status of Research Centre of the University of Calicut in 2014. The department has to its credit an addition of six new taxa to the plant kingdom viz. Amomum sabuanum, Eriocaulon pradeepii, Murdannia nampyana, Ophioglossum raphaelianum, Parthenocissus renukae, and Rotala cheruchakkiensis. The department organizes the national seminar ‘Species the Passion’ annually for young taxonomists and their new taxa. The flora of the St. Thomas College campus was online since August 2021.

Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation
The Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of open-data initiatives related to the whole of India and its geographical territories. The foundation is committed to utilizing technology and community engagement to foster transparency, accountability, and efficiency in government and various institutions. As part of SDCF's Biodiversity and Opendata initiatives, Supporting this projects for Digitization, Bioinformatics, Data Modeling, Maintaining the data, Developing the Web Technology and Integration to Wikimedia Ecosystem as part of the GLAM Project.

STC Herbarium
The St. Thomas College Herbarium was established after the starting of the Intermediate Course in 1952 and was formerly accredited with Index Herbariorum in January 2020. The herbarium housed more than 11,500 specimens from Kerala, and other South Indian states. including Algae, Fungi, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Plant Pathology. The web database includes a total of 1130 records representing 126 families consisting of Angiosperms (983 sheets), Algae (73), Pteridophytes (43), Fungi and Pathology (28), and Gymnosperms (3). The predominant plant families with maximum records represented are Gentianaceae (76 records), Asteraceae (53), Polygalaceae (41), Apocynaceae (39), Asclepiadaceae (38) and Meliaceae (38). Among these, more than 200 specimens were restored from their original damaged sheets by using handmade paper sheets. The restoration and digitization of the remaining sheets are under process.

Team
If you would like to get involved, leave a note on User:Manoj Karingamadathil's talk page.or you can write to dartermanoj@undefinedgmail.com.
 * Dr.Joby Paul (Project Coordination)
 * Manoj Karingamadathil (Informatics, Web Portal Design and Wikimedia Updation)
 * Dr.Akshay S Dinesh (Web Development)

Participants
Student Volunteers involved in the digitization process. Parvathy M.R., Amrutha K.K., Sreeshma P.S., Reshma Rajan, Angel Davis, Anu C. Benny, Jezrin Paulson, Marymol Shajan, Resmi K.R., Athira I., Christy Soosanna P. Kodankandath, Jasmine Sidhi M.S., Jiffy Joseph, Jisha Davis, Vinimol K.V., Megha V.T., Anitha V.D., Gayathri K., Ashna K.A., Arathy K.B., Sourav C.S., Anna C. Chirammel, Helna Nixon, Krishnakripa O.S., Silpa K.T., Aparna Pauly, Athulya Sajeev, Gowtham P.B., Albin Thomas, Sanjay Sudhin, Ashlin Rajesh, Annmary Joyson, Krishnapriya P., Swathy T., Athira V.R., Abiya C. Varghese, Abraham Francis

Uploads
All Uploadings from the Department of Botany, St. Thomas College, Thrissur can be see this link : Commons:Category:Herbarium specimens in St. Thomas College Thrissur.

Phase 2
2nd Phase of this project started

Links

 * STC HERBARIUM https://herbarium.stthomas.ac.in/
 * GBIF https://www.gbif.org/grscicoll/institution/d0fd6677-a7ec-48a3-be9c-423ff40f2713
 * The New York Botanical Garden https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=257935