I am looking for botanical gardens in Spain that have websites in english. got an address for me?

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I am looking for botanical gardens in Spain that have websites in english. got an address for me?

Answer 1

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Virtual Herbarium Express

A Tool for Capturing and Sharing Herbarium Specimen Information Electronically



Virtual Herbarium Express is a software application designed for use in the field by New York Botanical Garden scientists. It is also available free of charge to anyone else who wishes to use it. Virtual Herbarium Express can serve as both a field and herbarium tool for small to mid-sized herbaria, or as a starter system for a larger institution that wishes to gain experience with an existing collection management software application before creating their own. It is designed in the popular Microsoft Access XP format and can run as a standalone application on a desktop or notebook computer.

Collection information is entered in a simple data-entry form and stored in relational tables. The form contains six screens accessible by tabs at the top of the form. These screens - Collection, Determination, Location, Features, Habitat, and Objects - organize the more than 75 fields into a format promoting efficient data-entry. Extensive authority files buttress the system. These files are used to check the accuracy of the names of plants and people and publications as they are entered. (For example, the program comes with a table of over 71,000 people records and another of nearly 12,000 publications.) A small subset of output formats are also provided, allowing users to generate specimen labels, checklists, and collecting trip itineraries. (View sample screenshots of the program.)

In the field, Virtual Herbarium Express becomes an electronic fieldbook, capable of recording all necessary collection information. Instead of writing the information in a notebook, later to be transcribed into a database, users can now create and maintain the database in the field. (A non-electronic, traditional version of a fieldbook from the 1920s can be seen to the right.) Digital photos, or any other electronic file, can also be attached to each record, providing data otherwise unavailable or unconnected to a database. This collection information can then be used to print labels and other reports.

The Virtual Herbarium Express application can be downloaded from the Garden's Virtual Herbarium website. Updates and new applications will be posted from time to time. Although current funding does not permit active customization support for Virtual Herbarium Express, users are welcome to modify the application to suit their own research needs, and are encouraged to contribute additional forms, reports, or alternative table structures to the online library.

Data Hosting

Electronic access to the NYBG herbarium collections has been available since 1996 through The Virtual Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden. For institutions that use VH Express, but are not equipped to make their specimen data available in a searchable catalog, we will host that institution's data as a separate catalog in the NYBG Virtual Herbarium. The Virtual Herbarium Express software contains a utility that will format the user's data, at the click of one button, so that it will be ready to send to NY for hosting. For more details, contact us.

Database Features

User-friendly data-entry forms

Taxonomic Names Authority File

Locations Authority File

People Authority File

Publications Authority File

Ability to print specimen labels, checklists, and collecting trip itineraries

Data hosting

Updates to software and authority files available via the Internet

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the hardware and software requirements for using Virtual Herbarium Express?

Virtual Herbarium Express requires Microsoft Access XP (2002). If you have this program loaded on your machine, then you will be able to run the program. No other hardware or software is needed.

What does the program look like?

For screenshots, click here.

Can I modify the program?

Users are free to modify the database as they wish. No restrictions have been placed on the program. However, keep in mind that any reports or forms posted here will in all likelihood work only on those version where the structures of the tables have not been altered. This is especially critical if one wishes to have data hosted at NY through Virtual Herbarium Express. Access forms and reports inside Virtual Herbarium Express can be changed as a user wishes with no consequences to data hosting capabilities. In fact, it is this capability that will allow users to make new forms and reports (e.g., specimen labels) that can then be shared with other users.

Can I use the authority files associated with Virtual Herbarium Express (data dictionaries of genera, people, publications, etc.) in other programs or databases?

You are encouraged to use these data to expedite your own research needs. Additionally, if there are dictionary datasets from the NY herbarium that you would like to have that are not currently in Virtual Herbarium Express, contact us and we will make them available.

How can I get a copy of Virtual Herbarium Express?

Virtual Herbarium Express can be downloaded from the Library, or contact us and we'll send a cd your way.



Virtual Herbarium Express Library

Database

Download the latest version

Full version with authority files:

Access XP (English version) (32.5 Mb)

Access XP (Spanish version) (27.1 Mb)

Evaluation version (no authority files for faster downloading; all other functionality of full version included):

Access XP (English version) (12.8 Mb)

Access XP (Spanish version) (12.9 Mb)

Reports

User-submitted add-ons to the database library

Fungal Specimen Label (see a sample)

Other

User Manual in English (Adobe Acrobat)

User Manual in English (Microsoft Word)

User Manual in Spanish (Adobe Acrobat)

User Manual in Spanish (Microsoft Word)



User Feedback

The New York Botanical Garden is very interested in hearing from Virtual Herbarium Express users and potential users. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please address them to Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden through [e-mail].

Development of the Virtual Herbarium Express program was made possible, in part, by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The New York Botanical Garden also acknowledges the work of its Science Information Managers and also database programmer Brad Tulig and his help toward the realization of Virtual Herbarium Express.

Copyright ? 1996-2002, The New York Botanical Garden



http://www.bgbm.org/IDB/botgard.html

Answer 2

Valencia Parks  





   Botanical Gardens:

Although Valencia Botanical Gardens date back a very long time, they did not move to their current site (Huerto de Tramoyeres) until 1802. The University of Valencia gave a great deal of wherewithal to the new gardens which increased their links with other Spanish and foreign botanical gardens and achieved great renown.

Since 1802, they have had over 3,000 different plant species and a variety of plants from extremely different climates. There are still different early 19th-century style greenhouses.

How to get there:

Beato Gaspar Bono, 6.

Tel.: [phone] · fax: [phone]

46008 Valencia.



Monforte Gardens:

These 19th-century design Neoclassical gardens have a very large number of marble statues, pools, fountains, streets and summerhouses, giving the garden some very remarkable landscape effects.

How to get there:

Monforte, s/n.

Tel.: [phone] / 46010 Valencia.

Jardines de los Reales Viveros (Royal Nursery Gardens):

This park's great history (of Arabic origin), its size, is gardening wealth and the profusion of sculptures and fountains, which highlight the surroundings, make these the city's most outstanding gardens.

How to get there:

San Pío V, s/n.

Tel. [phone], Ext. 4303. 46010 Valencia.

Jardines del Viejo Cauce del Turia (Gardens of the Old Course of the River Turia):

After the floods of 1957, the course of the river Turia was artificially diverted south of the city. The old river bed therefore dried up and was turned into a series of differently-designed gardens and a new focal point for the city at the same time. Gulliver's children's park and the gardens opposite the Palacio de la Música are of special interest.

How to get there:

Puente Ángel Custodio.

Tels. 393.39.91 - 393.39.92. 46006 Valencia.

There are also other parks which include:

Alameditas de Serranos.

El Parterre y La Glorieta.

Answer 3

Jardin Botanico Finca de la Concepcion in Malaga

(excellent gardens)

Jardin Botanico Los Viveros in Valencia (so-so)

Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid (This one has a website in english)

There are many more botanical gardens, and National Parks in Spain, but most of the websites are only in spanish.

Hope this helps you out