The Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of Universidad Nacional de
Colombia includes the world’s largest collection of biological
specimens from Colombia. This collection is in the process of
digitization, and at the present time there are 235,000
specimens databased and made publicly available at the
Institute’s website (www.icn.unal.edu.co). These specimens
include plants (128,000), amphibians (40,000), birds (35,000),
mammals (15,000) and invertebrates (17,000). In spite of the
tremendous value of this information, its utility is hampered by
the lack of the available of the vast majority of specimens,
especially of cryptogams plants, due these group remain poorly
understood in our country and the databasing process of the
herbarium has concentrated on fanerogam plant families. The main
goal of the project is to digitize, georeference and release
through the web information of about 40.000 specimens of
cryptogams plants deposited in the Colombian National Herbarium.
The metadata of the project will be generated