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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 research, policy and program requirements.
2.3.8       Augment the taxonomic, spatial and temporal representation of the ANH collections, aligned with ANBG and CANBR priorities.
2.3.9       Apply new technologies to specimen workflows, helping to improve efficiencies, reduce manual handling and increase specimen and data accessibility.
     2.3.10       Reduce ANH legacy collections backlog.
     2.3.11       Make ANH 'dark matter' collections and data more readily accessible for users (e.g. orchid cards, line drawings, data sheets, photographic images).

2.4       Image collection

Background
ANBG image collections are managed through the CANBR partnership. The APII, which is the largest of these collections, is a valuable national and international resource for images of Australian plants in the wild and in cultivation. The non-plant portions of the collections provide a visual record of the development of the ANBG from its earliest days.
Most new images are now received in a born-digital format but there is a significant legacy collection of physical materials including 35-millimetre transparencies, photographic prints and negatives, line art, botanical illustrations and other media. APII images and the associated metadata are made available online through the ANBG and CANBR websites.
APII images support the management of ANBG collections, research, education and outreach. APII contains a growing photographic record of Australia's plant species diversity and ecological communities.

Aims
    * Develop, maintain and preserve the image collections as an authoritative source of images of the Australian flora and the development history of the ANBG.
    * Digitise an increasing proportion of images and make them available online with associated metadata.
    * Link the image collection effectively to other ANBG and CANBR collections and to national and international partnerships.
    * Make images readily accessible to both internal and external users under appropriate licensing arrangements.

Issues
    * Ongoing digitisation of the image collection is desirable to increase accessibility and to improve long-term storage conditions for images. This requires adequate resourcing.
    * Copyright conditions have become increasingly complex over time, due to the wide range of original image sources and varying permissions given by photographers. This complicates licensing images for use by third parties.

What we are going to do

Policies
2.4.1       The ANBG will store images under appropriate archival conditions for access, use, management and preservation.
2.4.2       Priority will be given to incorporation of images associated with and linked to:
      ANH herbarium specimens
      other herbaria in the Australasian Virtual Herbarium network
      plants in the ANBG living collection
      images with an equivalent quality of associated metadata.
2.4.3       The ANBG will continue