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the ANBG's botanical databases (see Section 2.6) to the living collection, to the seed bank and to related data systems and applications such as the Australian Plant Image Index (APII). The ANH's herbarium specimens provide important ongoing vouchers. These allow us to maintain linked collections, such as the living plants of the ANBG garden collections, in accordance with our existing and future understanding of Australia's plant heritage.

Aims
    * Through the ANH, grow our national and international role and impact as a leader in collections management, specimen-based research, and digital data content and delivery through 3 key themes:
        collection scope and integrity
        intensifying data and digital collections exposure
        innovative and collaborative applications of herbarium data.

Issues
    * Physical storage of the herbarium collection and associated buildings needs to be regularly assessed, especially the current separation of collections and staff across 2 sites.
    * The CSIRO New Collections Accommodation project is a significant development within the first 5 years of this plan (2022–2026). It will require a broad range of ANH operational changes that will need careful transition management.
    * A new collections management system needs to be developed and implemented to significantly improve data capture and management. Care will be needed to manage the transition to avoid loss of functionality/applicability to ANBG, especially for the linked living and genetic collections.
    * ANBG and CANBR need to monitor the impact emerging technologies may have on ANH collections management, including:
        artificial intelligence and machine learning
        the Herbarium Digital Imaging Project
        less disruptive incremental advancements aimed at improving efficiency (e.g. improved field book data capture).

What we are going to do

Policies
2.3.1       Herbarium collections will be maintained to high archival standards in secure, environmentally controlled buildings, and curated to contemporary taxonomic standards.
2.3.2       The ANH will provide scientific authority, including reliable and verifiable scientific names, for the ANBG living collection, the seed bank and the APII.
2.3.3       The broad representation of Australian and related floras in the ANH, both taxonomically and geographically, will be maintained and further developed with a focus on vascular plants, non-vascular plants, macrofungi and lichens.
2.3.4       The ANH will provide a plant enquiry and identification service. Charges may apply for services provided to professional or commercial individuals or organisations.
2.3.5       Promote the use of genetic material from the ANBG living collection to support research. The value of this material is reliant on the ANH collection's high-quality provenance data (see also Section 2.8).
2.3.6       Maintain existing and develop new Australasian herbarium policies and procedures collaboratively through the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH).

Actions
2.3.7       Contribute ANH collections and data towards projects undertaken by ANBG and CANBR staff, collaborative researchers and other