Plant Humanities Lab
The Plant Humanities Lab is an innovative digital space that supports the interdisciplinary study of plants from the various perspectives of the arts, sciences, and humanities, to explore their extraordinary significance to human culture.
The Plant Humanities Lab has two components. The first is a set of plant narratives created using Juncture, a new, open-source tool developed by JSTOR Labs. Drawing on herbals, horticultural treatises, and albums of botanical illustrations from the Dumbarton Oaks rare book library and other special collections, the narratives are enhanced by digital elements such as annotated high-resolution images, network visualizations, and interactive maps.
The second component is a search and resource discovery interface powered by Linked Open Data. The search interface presents a plant-oriented window into the wealth of data available in WikiData and related primary and secondary sources from vast repositories such as JSTOR Global Plants, JSTOR, Artstor, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
