Rob Cubey, Plant Records Officer
-
Rob Cubey, Plant Records Officer
I am the Plant Records Officer of the RBGE, handling the data management for both the Living and Herbarium collections. This includes the provision of data to the RBGE online catalogues as well as providing data to numerous external data partners.
I map the Living Collections of the RBGE, across all four of its sites and I am developing tools for the RBGE staff to use this data.
I am interested in how technology can be used to improve the visitor experience to RBGE, and how it can improve productivity in the horticultural department.
I also work on information workflows within the RBGE herbarium particularity how software and hardware can help make the information held within the 3 million herbarium sheets more accessible.
-
- Publications
-
Cubey, R., Barreiro, J., Besselaar, P. van den, Doorn, N. van, Keu, A., Koerten, H., Livermore, L., Ramos, M.A., Santos, C.M., Soledad Alonso, M., Gold. M. (2017) Research into Crowdsourcing metadata enrichment methodologies for Natural History Collections - SYNTHESYS3 - WP4: Joint Research Activity (JRA) Deliverable 4.3.
Robyn E Drinkwater, Robert Cubey, Elspeth Haston (2014) The use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimen labels. PhytoKeys 38(38):15-30
Elspeth Haston, Robert Cubey, Martin R. Pullan (2012) Developing integrated workflows for the digitisation of herbarium specimens using a modular and scalable approach. ZooKeys 209(209): 93-102
Elspeth Haston, Robert Cubey, David J. Harris (2012) Data concepts and their relevance for data capture in large scale digitisation of biological collections. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 6(1-2): 111-119
Robert Cubey, Paul Bradley (2012) A Preliminary investigation into the relationship between plant health and branch labelling technique at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Sibbaldia 9: 179-189
David Rae (ed.) (2012) Catalogue of Plants 2012. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
David Rae (ed.) (2006) Catalogue of Plants 2006. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Robert Cubey, Martin F. Gardner (2004) A New Approach to Targeting Verifications at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Sibbaldia 1: 19-23
- Committees
-
RBGE Interpretation Action Group
DINA database Technical Working Group
The PlantNetwork - Plant Records Subcommittee
Edinburgh University Citizen Science and Crowdsourced Data and Evidence Network
Scottish Digital Cultural Heritage Evaluation Network
Botanics Recommends
-
Browse through our diverse range of formal and informal education programmes for people of all ages and at all levels
-
RBGE publishes a range of books inspired by the Garden's work and collections
-
Knowledge Exchange links the research community with others.
-
View our selection of searchable resource centres.
-
Media Centre
Check our latest news and connect with our experts
-
Venue Hire
Find the ideal venue for your corporate event
-
Support us
Find out how you can support our work at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.